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Will always try to stick to you. 

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A friend in that sharp way of his. 

The Pins, Old String, the Rubber Bands 
Are very kind to handy hands. 

Old Box and funny Mr. Spool 
Come handy both at home and school. 
Now, these good friends, if you will look. 
Give fun in this your Handy Book. 

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THINGS <fe MAKE 


IN 


THIS HANDY HANDS BGDK 



Alfie Elf’s Friends 

G. Brodleigh Wright 

100 

AHie Elf’s House 

G. Bradleigh Wright 

98 

Animals on Parade 

Myrtle Jamison Trachsel 

46 

Apron for Dolly, An 

Mrs. John S. Boyer 

28 

Boxes for Christmas 

Sidney Baldwin 

91 

Candy Garden, A 

Sidney Baldwin 

69 

Christmas Creche, A 

Ella L. Lownsberry 

93 

Christmas Tree, For the 

Marion Brownfield 

95 

Circle Circus Folks 

Hazel M. Sample 

77 

Collecting Animal Autographs 

Harvey Peake 

24 

Crinkly Bath Baby, The 

Myrtle Jamison Trachsel 

78 

Dainty Tea Set, A 

Mildred Millicent Wright 

48 

Dolls’ Porch, The 

Marion Brownfield 

79 

Drinking Cup, A 

Myrtle Jamison Trachsel 

75 

Ethel’s Doll Clothes 

Marion Brownfield 

65 


Fairy Balls of Green 56 

Myrtle Jamison Trachsel 

Fairy Plants from the Sea 7 

George L. Carlson 

Four-Cornered Cable, A 57 

Lillian Loring Trott 

Glass Seed Bed, A 51 

Hazel Harper Harris 

Happy Joke, A 63 

Lillian Loring Trott 

Hawaiian Parasol, A 21 

Myrtle Jamison Trachsel 

Irish Canoe Race 45 

Alice Craige Martin 

Japanese Dish Garden 61 

Marion Brownfield 

Jewels of Paper 26 

Abigail Gove 

Laying Water Pipes 36 

Minerva Hunter 

Made All by Yourself 41 

Lillian Loring Trott 

Make-Believe Visit, The 22 

Clara A. Graeffe 

Makem Naraem Spinners 71 

Gilbert Fletcher 

Making a Farm 73 

Marion Brownfield 

Making a Paper Turtle Swim 25 

Stanley A. Stole 







Things to Make 

in 

This Handy Hands Book 

( Continued) 


Mushroom Designs 89 

Herbert Odley Williams 

Old Fashioned Valentine, An 38 

Abigail Gove 

Orphan Annie, How to Make 14 

Has el W. Sample 

Paper Bags, Fun with 32 

Marion Brownfield 

Paper Jewelry 34 

Lillian Loring Trott 

Playing Bakery 87 

Marion Brownfield 

Popcorn Fairies 30 

Myrtle Jamison Trachsel 

Potato Gargoyles 10 

Gilbert Fletcher 

Quill Pop-Gun, How to Make a 29 

Charles H. Smith 

Rainy Day Farm, A 3 

Maud Wright O’Leary 

Rainy Day Rule, A 84 

Elsie M. Hubacheh 

Rainy Day Scrap Book, A 52 

Amelia Leavitt Hill 

Ribbons, What to do with 59 

H. W. 


Sand Coloring 

Jill Jones 

76 

Sandpile Beach 

Marion Brownfield 

85 

Seeds and Beads 

Lillian Loring Trott 

54 

Snow Ice Cream 

Alice A. Keen 

83 

Snow Play 

Alice A. Keen 

81 

Spool Top, Making a 

Walter J. Muilenburg 

42 

Tin Can Stilts 

Myrtle Jamison Trachsel 

13 

Tiny Dancing Dolls 

Isabel Sewall Hunter 

44 

Toothpicks and Taters 

Lillian Loring Trott 

43 

Traveling Kit, The 

Jean Wilson Robbins 

16 

Travel Scrap Book, A 

Nancy D. Dunlea 

5 

Uncooked Candy 

Lillian Loring Trott 

67 

Your Own Telephone 

Amelia Leavitt Hill 

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OME day when Mother 
thinks it unwise for you 
to go out on account of 
the rain, or snow, or cold, I 
am sure you may be happy if 
you will sit down with an old 
newspaper and scissors and start a “Paper Farm.” 

Just ask Mother if she remembers how Grandma folded the paper when 
she used to cut out fascinating little dolls all in a row, holding hands. 

If she shouldn’t remember, I think you will soon “catch on” if you 
will cut a strip of paper about four inches wide, and fold over about an 

inch at one end. Then fold it like a fan, first 
one way and then the other. This is the basis 
of all the cutting to make your farm; fitting 
all your patterns onto the folds, and making 
some folds wider than others to fit the pat¬ 
terns. 

You may have an artist in the family 
who will draw all your patterns for you, or 
you may be artistic enough to draw them your- 

THC 15 THE WAY TO FOLD THE TAPE R_P Self. If not, 

hunt among the magazine advertisements and 
in your story books, and I am sure you will 
find pictures of trees, animals, and children 
you can make use of. 

In using a tree pattern, cut it in half 
and lay the straight edge along one edge of — 
your pattern, having the fold just as wide as 
the half tree. Then cut out the half of the 

tree (through all the thicknesses), being sure 5fp A p^tobI E cStA wS DOTTeDPART 



























to leave a base, and one other part, some place 
in the pattern that is not cut, else your trees 
will not hold together. 

If you are a really clever little boy or 
girl (and I am sure you are) you will be able 
to fit all sorts of patterns onto your folds. 
For the house and barn you will need only 
one fold of your paper which will make the 
two sides even. Your fence will require sev¬ 
eral folds, and 
you will need a great deal of fence to enclose 
your farm. 

Then you can cut out mountains and hills 
to stand in the distance, and a whole row of 
hills might be cut from a fold. In making 
the animals be sure your pattern fits the fold 
so it touches on both folded lines or they will 
not be joined together. For instance, have 
the nose of the kitty and the base on the folded 
line on one side, and the end of the tail and the base on the other folded 
side. The base may be dispensed with if you prefer to have the kitty’s feet 
free. It may sound a bit complicated, but when you get to work with your 
scissors and folds you will soon see other possibilities. 

When they are finished, set them up like a real farm on some green 
or brown cloth in the house, or out on the grass, after it has cleared up. 
Perhaps you may have the kitties and squirrels larger than the fences, or 
the dollies too big to go into the house and barn, but you have a good imag¬ 
ination I am sure and will be able to imagine them all in good proportion. 














I T is almost as much fun to 
make a Travel Scrapbook 
as it is really to travel. 
With a book, the best of it is 
you can go to just the places 
you want to and not think how 
much it will cost for carfare or 
boat rides. 

An ordinary blank book is 
just the thing in which to paste 
the pictures. These can be cut 
from newspapers, magazines, railroad folders, and advertising of all kinds. 

One of the most interesting ways to make the Travel Scrapbook is 
to take a trip to some definite place like Florida, California, the moun¬ 
tains, Niagara Falls or one of the National Parks. Washington, D. C., 
our national capital, is another fine place to go in a scrapbook. 

To begin the book, it is fun to paste in the picture of the boy or girl 
or family that it going to take the trip. On the next page have a picture 
of a suitcase, hand-bag or trunk. If you cannot find a picture of a rail¬ 
road station, you can draw one. It is quite easy to find pictures of trains 
and boats. A map is interesting to put in the Travel Scrapbook because 
you can take a red crayon and mark just where the trip is being taken. 
You might have a railroad time-table, also, and collect pictures of the cities 
and historical places your journey would take you through. 

On the train or boat you can have pictures that will show the dining- 
car, the steamer deck, and all the scenery along the way. Perhaps you 
can paste in a picture of the ticket agent, the porter and the baggage¬ 
man. Then, as there are sure to be some interesting people to meet on the 
train, paste in a few people who look interesting. Perhaps one will be 
a famous person whom you are very surprised to find on the train; another 
will be a pleasant boy or girl that you are glad to meet, and another will 
be a woman with a baby. 

You can find many pretty pictures of scenery. There should be 


A TRAVEL SCRAPBOOK 

























pictures of rivers, lakes, hills, 
mountains, plains, and, in the 
cities, famous buildings. If you 
are taking a long trip, there 
should be a picture of the hotel 
where you stay. 

A pleasant way to take a 
journey in the summer is by 
automobile. To begin this, paste 
a picture of a motor car on the 
first page of the Travel Scrap¬ 
book. It is fun to camp along the way, and all the good camping 
places should be cut out of magazines and pasted in. A tent and 
a first-class camping outfit should all be shown. You can put in pictures, 
too, showing how meals are cooked over a camp-fire. Good things to eat 
on the camping trip, such as bacon, eggs, potatoes, and canned goods, can 
all be pasted on another page. 

On a trip in the country you see many interesting things. Some of 
the pictures to find and paste in the scrapbook are farmhouses, cows 
feeding in a pasture, a fishing scene, pretty gardens and orchards, and all 
kinds of birds and animals. 

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For the older boys and girls this can be developed into a game that 
is most interesting and highly instructive, as well. In a family that I 
know, several children chose far-away countries to visit. They planned 
the routes there and return, writing to railway companies for folders and 
guides. They learned exactly what the fare would be, what kind of money 
was used in the country and what was the rate of exchange. They studied 
most carefully the cities they would visit, learned about the climate, prod¬ 
ucts, industries, religion, and collected every picture they could find bear¬ 
ing upon their particular country. The books some of them made were 
of real value, and the boys and girls gained a really living knowledge of 
places not familiar to most people. In fact, they became authorities on 
the countries they had chosen. Daddy or Mother will suggest journeys 
for you to plan until you gain some experience, then you can choose your 
own. Bon voyage! 


















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I F you are spending the late days of the summer or early fall at the 
seashore it will be interesting fun to go hunting for seaweed. Many 
pretty sea-moss plants can be found at this time of the year. After they 
are properly mounted on cards, you will have a beautiful souvenir of 
your seaside holiday. If the water is too chilly for a bathing-suit, the job 
of hunting will go to the boy with a pair of long rubber boots. 

The best time to find the moss is when the tide is coming in, and if 
there are rocks along the shore, there will he a good place to search, espe¬ 
cially if the water is not rough. 

Fill a little pail or a preserve jar with sea water, to hold your speci¬ 
mens until you are ready to mount them. Now, when you have waded 
out where the water is smooth, as far as you can go, look for what appears 
to be masses of tangled silk thread. With a little practise you will pick 
out easily the kind that will mount best. Small delicate bunches are 
better than the large coarser ones. 

To mount your moss, have a shallow tray or dish filled with sea water 
(not fresh water), and place one or two plants at a time in the dish. A 








































































piece of cardboard about the thickness of a visiting card and about four by 
six inches in shje is now carefully slid into the water under the moss. 
With the help of a match-stick or toothpick the little plant can now be 
spread around on the card. This should be done with a thin film of 
water covering the card and the moss, or with it all thoroughly wet. 
When you have the plant nicely arranged, carefully lift the card out of 
the water and put it in the sun to dry. The plant contains enough 
gelatin to make it stick firmly to the card without glue or paste. 

There are many varieties of sea plants which you can mount, and a 
few of these cards will make an interesting addition to your collection of 
shells or objects of nature study. 





























EST you be fond of eating above all other amuse¬ 
ments, let me tell you in the beginning that 
a potato gargoyle is not an article of food. 
In its simplest form, a gargoyle is a rain spout which 
projects from the side of a building to throw the roof- 
water clear of the walls. It is spelled in various ways, 
but in this spelling as well as in its other forms, it is 
intended to imitate the sound made by gurgling water. 

The original spout not being a handsome thing, architects formerly rem¬ 
edied the trouble by constructing them in the form of dragons, mythical 
monsters, and gnarled figures. They are found chiefly on churches, and 
represent the demons who were excluded from the sacred interiors. When 
you visit the cathedrals of Europe, you will be interested to see how gro¬ 
tesque and ugly are the gargoyles on Westminster Abbey, Notre Dame 
Cathedral, in fact, on almost every medieval church that still stands. It is 
as fantastic monsters, and not as water carriers, that gargoyles are most 
widely known, and in the hope that you can fashion some heads which are 
more fantastic than those which adorn many an ancient building, I am let¬ 
ting you into the secret of “Potato Gargoyles.” 

It is a long way from Notre Dame Cathedral to the Minnesota back¬ 
yard where I learned to make potato gargoyles. My teacher was a good- 
natured tramp, who came to ask for food at our kitchen door. To amuse 
a wide-eyed little boy, he asked for a raw potato and, while he ate his bread 
and beans and coffee, sitting on the clothes-reel platform, between bites he 
cut potatoes into strange and weird faces. For a long time after, there they 
hung, eagerly watched as they dried and changed until they looked more 
like stone idols than anything else. 



The material necessary for gargoyle-making consists of a few medium 

size potatoes and a paring knife. By referring to Plates 1 and 2, you will 

see that the best way to proceed is first to cut out the profile. I think that 

this is made clear in the middle top drawing of Plate 2. When this is done, 

turn the head so that it faces you. Then cut away the sides of the nose to 

make it look more or less like a wedge lying on the surface of the face, 

the pointed edge of which starts at the eyebrows. On the first faces that 

you make, do not try to work out the eyes or mouth too much. If your 

start is only as good as a snow 

man’s head, you have no reason 

to be discouraged. If you have 

trouble in forming a good mouth, 

you can make one like a rainy 

new moon, such as you place on 

jack-o’-lanterns, or you can 

cover this portion of the face 

with a great flowing beard. 

Try to waste as little of the 

potato as possible; that is to 
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big chunks unless it is necessary. Cut into it brave¬ 
ly, however, leaving good angular joints where the 
cuts meet. You can often decide puzzling things 
about cutting by looking at your own face in the 
mirror. Anyway, you are making caricatures, and 
correctness is a minor thing. As a last act, remove 
all of the peeling. After giving your gargoyles a 
good rinsing, you can tint them with water-color, 
if you wish, but this is not necessary. 

The heads are now ready to hang. Shove a 
hairpin into the head from the top side (see Plate 
2), and to this attach a light string about a foot 
long. With this string, suspend the head in a 
breezy place for ten days or two weeks to dry. 
It will take this time for your carving to change all the way to a gargoyle. 
•It will change in color, change in size, and day by day become vastly dif¬ 
ferent in appearance. 

If you look at the heading of this article, you can get a slight idea of 
the thing you may expect, but if you made them for the rest of your life, 
no two of them would dry alike, so how can I, who am in no wise a prophet, 
tell you what to expect? 




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TIN CAN STILTS 

D ID you ever see older children walk 
on big, high stilts and wish you were 
old enough to do it? If so, suppose 
you make a pair of tin can stilts. They are 
easy to make, and they will carry you across 
the little river made by the hose as safely as 
the tall stilts will. 

Find two old tin cans that have one end 
cut out evenly and clean. With a nail and a 
hammer make a hole in the closed end of one 

can near the edge. Just below it make 
another hole. Pass the end of a stout 
string through the two holes and tie it 
firmly. Make twounore holes on the op¬ 
posite side of the can just like these 
and tie the other end of the string 
through these. The string should be just 
long enough to reach your hand when you 
are standing erect on top of the can, your 
foot between the ends of the string. 

You now have one stilt, and it will 
be easy to make another one just like 
it for your other foot. Use these stilts 
like the stirrup of a saddle. When you 
lift your foot you also lift your tin can 
by means of the string in your hand. A 
wire would be better than a string. You 
would fasten it to the can by bending 
back the end that goes through the holes 
on either side. 













ORPHAN ANNIE 


« HOW TO MAKE 



M OTHER had been reading Raggedy Ann to her little people. 
From that she turned to Orphan Annie in the Riley Book. But 
the twins, Polly and Peggy, grew restless. They wanted some¬ 
thing to do. 

“Let’s make an Orphan Annie the size of our little dolls !” Polly 
suggested. 

“Let’s!” agreed Peggy. 

Soon they had gathered cotton, muslin, shoe-buttons, yarn, water- 
color paints, needle and thread, and gay flowered calico. Mother cut the 
pattern, body and head being in one piece. 

Here is the diagram and dimensions. The pattern allows a seam, 
with stitching on the dotted lines. Leave the ends open to stuff. Close 
seam at end of body after stuffing. Sew on the stuffed arms and legs. 
Sew two shoe-buttons on the face for eyes, and draw the nose and mouth 
with good black pencil or trace carefully with ink. Paint the cheeks and 
shoes red with water colors, red wax crayons, wet red crepe paper, or 
red ink. Sew brown or black yarn in loose loops all over the head, closely. 



then cut the loops in two, making her serag- 
gly hair. Make her a dress and apron as 
you would for your other six-inch dolls. 
Now you have a poor little orphan doll who 
can “wash the cups an’ saucers an’ brush the 
crumbs away,” and wait on the other dolls 
who are “refined and educated, as ladies 
should be.” 












































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J ANE and Barbara and Katherine were going to take a long journey. 
It was a very long journey, indeed, from one side of the United 
States, by the Pacific Ocean, away across to the other side, by the 
Atlantic Ocean. It was going to take five whole days and nights on the 
train. The little girls thought that would be ever so much fun. 

“We shall ride and ride and ride,” they said. “We shall see our whole 
great country.” 

Mother was very busy packing. Aunt Sylvia was helping. 

“What shall I do with three little girls on the cars for five whole days?” 
said Mother. “They cannot sit still five minutes; how can they manage it 
for almost a week?” 

“They need a Traveling Kit,” said Aunt Sylvia. 

“A Traveling Kit! What is a Traveling Kit?” asked Jane, who was 
eight years old. 

“Is it a real kitty?” said Barbara, who was six. 

“Really kitty?” echoed little Katherine. 

Aunt Sylvia laughed. “What could you do with a real kitty on the 
train?” she said. “No, these little girls must have a Traveling Kit, and I 
must get it ready for them. We’ll see if it won’t be better than a real 
kitty-cat for a traveling companion.” 

There was so much for even little girls to do the next few days that 
Jane and Barbara and Katherine forgot all about the Traveling Eat till 
they were ready to get into the train early Monday morning. Aunt Sylvia 
came hurrying up to them at the last minute. She carried a big, big bun¬ 
dle, all wrapped up in paper, and handed it to Mother, 

“Here it is,” she said. “Don’t open it till half past two o’clock this 
afternoon. Good-bye, my dear little girls, good-bye.” 

The children thought it was great fun to travel. They played with 



the dolls they had brought with them, and watched the people in the car, 
and looked out of the window. Still, it was a long morning. When lunch 
time oame, little Katherine thought it must be supper. 

“I wish there could be a sand-pile in this car,” said Barbara. 

“I wish I could see the children at school,” said Jane. 

All this time the big bundle lay quietly by itself in a corner of the seat. 
Finally it was half past two o’clock. 

“Time for the Traveling Kit,” said Mother. “Who will uncover it 
for us?” 

Six little hands grasped it at once. 

“Careful!” said Mother. 

“Why, it’s just a bag!” cried Barbara. 

So it was, a great big brown paper bag with handles at the top, like 
the one Mother carried when she went marketing. But this bag was almost 
covered with pictures, and every picture had a kitty in it. And the bag 
was just full of little bundles. But every bundle was all tied up so that 
you could not possibly see inside. 

“What can they be?” cried Jane. 

“Christmas presents!” exclaimed Barbara. 

“Birthdays,” said little 
Katherine. 

Mother took out the 
top bundle. It was a small 
one, and a card on it said 
“Number One.” Mother 
unwrapped it. What do 
you think it was? It was a 
little gray kitty-cat, made 
out of something soft like 
velvet. It had a wee little 
tail, and it had a red ribbon 
around its neck, with a tiny 
bell. Tied to the kitty was 
a paper. 

“You may read this 
paper, Jane,” said Mother. 


















This is what Jane read 
to her two little sisters: 
“Oh, I am your little Trav¬ 
eling Kit. 

Of course, Vm not alive a 
bit. 

I cannot purr, I cannot 
mew. 

But there is ONE thing I 
can do. 

Til give you something 
every day 

To make you work or make you play. 
Each afternoon at half past two 
TU have a bundle here for you. 

Til make the time so quickly flit 
That you will love your Traveling Kit” 

“Isn’t she a clever little cat!” cried Jane. 

“My kitty!” said Katherine, who didn’t understand at all, of course. 

Then Mother took out of the bag three more bundles. Each had a 
card marked “Monday,” and each had one of the little girl’s names on it. 

“It is like Christmas,” said Barbara. They could hardly wait to undo 
the packages. 

What do you think Jane’s was? It looked very queer; a ball of soft 
pink yam, two white knitting needles, and a little note which said: 

“Now don't you think it would be jolly 
To knit a little cap for dolly?” 

“It would he splendid!” cried Jane, clapping her hands. Jane could 
knit very nicely, and Mother started her off. 

Barbara’s package was flat. It held three little cards with pictures on 
them. The pictures had holes punched along the lines. There were nee¬ 
dles with colored threads. Barbara knew how to put the needles through 
the holes and make the lines pretty. She had learned in kindergarten. 

Little Katherine’s parcel was a box of big beads. They were all colors. 
There were colored strings to string them on. Katherine was delighted. 
She could do it all by herself, though she was only three and a half. 




















Do you know, it was time to be washed for supper before those little 
girls knew it at all? After supper, it was bedtime, of course, and one of 
the five days was gone already. 

Tuesday morning the children were bright and fresh. Whenever the 
train stopped they ran races on the station platform just to stretch their 
legs. Mother played with them, and the people in the car were very kind; 
but still it was a long while until two-thirty. When the time came, the old 
gentleman across the aisle and the young lady in front of them looked over 
to see what the fun was about. 

The bundles were all square and flat. They were books. There was 
quite a hard book for Jane. There was an easy book with lots of pictures 
for Barbara, and for Katherine there was a dear little book shaped like a 
kitty itself, and inside many pictures of animals. And while the little girls 
were busy reading, Mother had the loveliest nap. 

At four o’clock Mother found another bundle marked Tuesday. That 
was a surprise. The writing on this bundle said: 

“The time has come/' said Traveling Kit , 

“For little girls to eat a bit. 

I think you'll find these very pretty. 

And say you like to eat a kitty ” 

They were cookies. Each one was shaped like a kitty. Some were 
white kitties covered with sugar. Some were brown chocolate cookies; and 
there were gingerbread ones. They had currants for eyes. They were very 
little and good. 

“There are more than enough cookies for every one in this car,” said 
Jane. She got up and passed them around. All the ladies and gentlemen 
laughed at the funny cat cookies. They said they were delighted to have 
them. 

When Wednesday came there was only one bundle, and the children 
looked disappointed. It held a big pad of paper and three pretty pencils. 
One pencil was red, one yellow, and one green. The writing on this pack¬ 
age said: 

“Each little girl must draw a cat. 

Whatever do you think of that! 

The very best , to Mother's eyes , 

Shall win a present for a prize ” 


“Oh, I can never draw a kitty!” cried Barbara; but little Katherine 
didn’t say a word. She just seized her pencil and went to work. Then 
Barbara did, too, and so did Jane. They drew and drew and drew. Fi¬ 
nally each drew a best kitty and handed it to Mother. 

Almost all the people in the car came to help Mother decide which 
was best. The old gentleman said Katherine’s was the most independent; 
the young lady said Jane’s was the most appealing; The Man-Who-Looked- 
Like-Father said Barbara’s was certainly the most amazing. But Mother 
said: 

“I can see that Jane’s picture is the best for eight years and Barbara’s 
is the best for six and Katie’s is decidedly the best for three years old. I 
shall have to divide up that prize, children.” 

Mother found the prize, and, what do you think—it was three sticks 
of candy! 

“That Traveling Kit knew her business,” said the Man-Who-Looked- 
Like-Father. 

I suppose you want me to tell you what the Kitty gave the children 
Thursday and Friday. But I really can’t, for this story is too long al¬ 
ready. But I can tell you that the dear Kit had lovely things for all three 
children, and kept them busy every afternoon. Even Mother was sorry 
when there were no more bundles and the journey was over. 

Probably you think that is the end of the Traveling Kit, but no indeed. 
The little girls had not been long in their new home when Aunt Mary had 
to take a journey with her little children. Out came the big bag again. 
This time Mother and Jane filled it up and put the Kit on the top, just as 
before. Away he went to make the journey bright for Aunt Mary and the 
little cousins. 

“Keep him till you find somebody else who is going to travel,” said 
Jane to Aunt Mary. “Good-bye, little Traveling Kit.” 

Do you know, that Kitty has taken four long journeys already? Look 
out for him if you should have to go somewhere. He might visit you. 






A Hawaiian Parasol >• Your Don 

W HEN you are driving in the country in the late summer and the 
fall, you often see the large lavender blossoms of the thistle. I 
wonder if you know that you can make Dolly a beautiful Ha¬ 
waiian parasol from one of these pretty blossoms. 

The thistle is a nuisance, and the farmers will be glad to have you 
take as many of the blossoms as you like. Be careful! There are thorns 
all over the bush. If you do not have your scissors with you, perhaps you 
had better ask Father to cut the tough stems with his knife. Take the half- 
opened buds, too. They make nice dusters for the doll house. 

When you reach home, cut the stem off close to the green part at the 
beginning of a blossom. You can rub the stickers off this green part with 
a cloth. Now open your blossom in the middle and gently press the lav¬ 
ender part back towards the green on all sides. Lay it flat on the table 
for a time with a heavy book on top of it. This makes your parasol stay 
open and all you need now is the handle. A toothpick makes a fine han¬ 
dle. Press it into the middle of the blossom, and the parasol is ready for 
Dolly, 

Now we will make a duster. Stick the toothpick into the green part 
of the flower, just where the stem was cut off. A half-opened bud makes 
the best duster. Pick off the lavender outside of the blossom, leaving only 
the fluffy white of the center. Trim the white straight across the bottom, 
and watch the dust fly from the doll house. 











D ID you ever pretend 
you were getting ready 
to go away on a visit? 
Of course you have, and you 
know what fun it was to plan 
just where you were going and 
what you wanted to take with 
you. Well, here’s a make-believe trip that you can take either all by your¬ 
self, or in company with your friends sometime when you are having a 
party. 

Before you begin to play, you must get these things together—a piece 
of fairly stiff paper, about eight inches square (wrapping paper will do 
nicely); a pair of scissors, a little paste, and a couple of magazines with lots 
of advertisements in them. 

First you must decide where you will go on your trip. Then you 
must make your trunk to hold all the things you want to take with you. 
To make the trunk, fold the piece of paper in sixteen squares, the way 
you did at kindergarten. You remember you fold the paper in two, then 
open it up and fold first one side up to the middle fold, then the other side. 

The paper is now divided into four 
parts. Turn it around, and make the 
same three folds with the paper going 
the other way. This will give you six¬ 
teen squares altogether. With the 
paper opened up in front of you, take 
your scissors and cut in one square 
along the three creases on one side of 
the paper, and do the same on the 
other. The dotted lines on the dia¬ 
gram below will show you just where 
to cut. 

Then fold sections A and C over 
B at each end and paste them together. 




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This forms your trunk and the 
long strip with two squares 
marked D on each end is the 
cover. Now that your trunk is 
ready, you are ready to do your 
packing. Look through the ad¬ 
vertising pages of the maga¬ 
zines you have and cut out all the things you want to put in the trunk. 
There will be such things as talcum powder, watches, jewelry, shoes, stock¬ 
ings, caps—all sorts of things. 

If you are having a real party and there are several of you packing 
trunks, you will all want to see what the others are taking with them. 
After you have looked over each other’s trunks, mother will serve re¬ 
freshments—perhaps some gelatin with whipped cream, and cookies and 
hot cocoa, or if the day is warm, orange and lemon juice together makes 
a nice drink. Small trunks filled with candy make nice favors for your 
little guests, and if there is to be a Jack Horner pie, get mother to put 
in it little things like a tiny auto, an aeroplane, a sailboat, a rowboat, a 
train—anything which would indicate how you will go on your journey. 

These things can be bought at a five- 
and-ten cent store or at a favor shop. 
Have ribbons to each child’s place, and 
all pull at the same time. 
















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AUTOGRAPHS 



D ID you ever hear of making a collection of animal autographs or 
tracks? Probably not. Yet it can be done, and is very inter¬ 
esting. 

Old berry boxes are the best things to use for such a collection. Get 
the shallow kind, or cut the deep ones down to half their depth. Fill them 
with wet sand and set them in the paths of the animals whose tracks you 
want to get. Of course, they must be sunk down into the ground so that 
they will be on a level with the path over which the animal will run. 

The best time to fix them in the ground is just before dark, for after 
dark the little animals are much more active than they are during the 
day. You will have better success if you place them along the banks of 
a stream; it is here that most of the animals come in their search for 
water. 

When you have secured a good example, the box should be taken up, 
washed off on the outside and labeled with the name of the animal, the 
date of its “autograph,” and any other information you may care to add. 
A collection of these little souvenirs will add much to the interest of your 
playhouse or den. 



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MAKING A PAMTIMLE SWIM 



HE title of this article sounds like an Impossibility. It may be 
done, however, by following these directions: 


From a piece of medium weight paper cut a paper turtle like Fig. 
1. In the center make a circular hole, connecting it with the edge by a nar¬ 
row canal like Fig. 2. Pour some water into a shallow dish or pan and 
place your paper turtle upon it in such a way that the under part is com¬ 
pletely moistened but the top perfectly dry. To make this possible your 
paper must be quite smooth and unrumpled. 

Now ask your friends to set the turtle in motion without touching it or 
blowing upon it. When they have all tried in every way they can think of 
without success, get a dropper or fountain-pen filler and carefully put one 
drop of oil in the turtle’s center. If you have done it properly the turtle 
will move forward. 

The reason is this: Oil on water always wants to spread. The top of 
the turtle being dry, there is but one direction for the oil to go, and that is 
backward. The reaction causes the turtle to move in the opposite direction 
from the flowing of the oil, 
which is forward. 

It is doubtful if your 
friends will know the reason 
you were able to do the im¬ 
possible. They will just be 
mystified. 













P OLLY’S mother had a silver mesh- 
bag that Polly liked very much. 
When it was so old that the links 
kept breaking and it was no longer worth 
mending, Mother gave it to Polly. She 
kept it in a box in the top drawer of her 
doll’s bureau, but in spite of her care the 
holes grew bigger and bigger, and at last 
there were a lot of little links loose in the 
box. Polly looked at them sorrowfully. 
Her older brother, Jack, who had an in¬ 
quiring turn of mind, examined them. 

“They link into each other, and when 
one breaks, the rest all unravel just as 
your knitting stitches do,” he said. “I 
wonder if I could put them together in 
a chain.” 

For over an hour he tried, but his fin¬ 
gers were not skilful enough; when he 
had a few in place, the next link slipped 
and the work was all undone. 

“If they were bigger, I could manage 
them,” he said. “I’ll make some paper 
ones that are this shape.” 



Paper 

















Polly ran for the wrapping-paper and 
the scissors, and in almost no time at all, 
Jack had a paper chain long enough to 
go around Polly’s neck and reach the hem 
of her skirt. He found that it was best 
to start with a circle, and slip the links 
on at each end. After he experimented 
a little, the link-like pattern slipped most 
easily into place. 

“I wish I could fasten it,” said Polly. 

“You can stick it with paste, or with a 
little arrow-shaped flap on a strip,” and 
Jack cut it out as he spoke. 

“This will make beautiful jewelry for 
us to dress up in,” said Polly. “I can 
color the different links or make them 
out of gold or silver paper.” 

“Or out of those colored magazine 
pages we couldn’t use for our scrap¬ 
books, but saved because they were so 
pretty,” said Jack. “We can make little 
links for bracelets, and long links with 
different shaped tops for crowns.” 

And when the jewelry was done 
Mother said it was as pretty as anything 
they had ever made. 































AN APRON J>r DOLLY 

Y OU can make a really pretty 
apron for Miss Dolores Anne or 
Miss Minerva Julia by using a 
handkerchief as material. The pret¬ 
tier the handkerchief the daintier the 
apron. If there is a corner decoration, 
plan to have that come on the skirt of 
the apron. A handkerchief ten inches 
square will make an apron for a doll 
ten or twelve inches tall. 

Fold the handkerchief in the mid¬ 
dle. (See diagram.) Cut it on the 
fold. One-half is for the skirt of the 
apron. Gather this on a double thread. 

Sew a band on it. This band can be 
made from any thin white material you 
can find in Mother’s work-basket. The 
band must be cut one inch wide, to be 
a half inch wide finished, and as long 
as one-half of Dolly’s waist. 

The other half of the handkerchief 
must be folded lengthwise in two equal 

parts and cut. The part with the 
border will make the shoulder straps 
or collar. Just hem the raw edge. Sew 
the ends to the band of the apron. 

Now for the other strip. Cut off 
an inch and a half from one end. Cut 
this in two parts. These are the tiny 
pockets. Of course, any careful dolly 
wants two pockets to tuck a doll stick 
of candy into. 

The long piece of goods that is left 
must be cut in two strips. These form 
the apron strings, and must be hemmed 
on the sides. 

The small bit of cloth two inches 
long and one-half an inch wide will 
make a head-band. Frill some Valen¬ 
ciennes lace around it. 

Tie it on Dolly’s head with baby 
ribbon streamers. 

Oh, Dolly looks like a housekeep¬ 
er who keeps her house spic and span.. 




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HOW TO MAKE A 

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ERE is a gun that Grandfather 
made, and had great fun with it, 
too. It is not only a good gun 
to shoot a “bullet,” but it makes a loud 
pop at the same time. The gun is very 
easy to make and the materials for mak¬ 
ing it are easy to get. 

For this gun you will need the largest 
feather or quill that you can find. A 
goose quill is best. Cut this quill off near 
the place where the feathery part begins 
and trim each end straight across. This 
gives you a piece of quill from three to 
four inches long. Next, whittle out a lit¬ 
tle ramrod about six inches long, mak¬ 
ing it straight and round so that it fits 
the inside of the quill. (See illustration.) 
Be careful not to have it too large, for it 
will split the quill if you do. With this 
ramrod, punch out any fibrous matter on 
the inside of the quill. 


QUILL 
POP-GUN 



RAM-ROD 


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THE QUILL 


POTATO SLAB 





After making the inside of the quill 
perfectly smooth, cut a flat slab out of a 
potato, cutting it so that it is about a 
quarter of an inch thick. This is your 
ammunition. You will notice that your 
quill tapers slightly—that one end is a 
little larger around than the other end. 
To shoot the gun, stick the large end of 
the quill through the slab of potato, cut¬ 
ting out a little round slug which sticks 
in the end of the quill. With your ram¬ 
rod punch this slug through to the other 
end of the quill. Then cut another plug 
out of the potato slab, using the same 
large end of the quill. When you punch 
this slug towards the other end of your 
quill, the first slug will fly out with a 
loud pop and travel from forty to sixty 
feet. With a little practice you will find 
that you can shoot the slugs quite straight. 

The illustrations will help you to make 
the gun. 

















POP CORN FAIRIES 



W HEN the cold winter days come, no doubt 
you will pop a large pan of corn, and 
eat and eat and eat. But when you cannot 
possibly eat another bit there is still plenty of fun to 
be had with the white grains that are left. Did 
they not make you think of fairies when they were 
dancing about over the fire? That is just what they 
are. They are waiting for you to give them a fluffy 
paper dress and a little ink to make their features 
plain. 

If you find one with a round top and a fluffy 
white collar, you will know right away that he was 
intended for a Chubby. With a pen and a little ink 
lightly touch his eyes, as shown in the picture. Very 
much ink or a strong touch will make a big hole 
and spoil it all. The eyes should be rather low, with 
just room underneath for a broad mouth that turns 
up at the corners. Draw a heavy line around either 
side of the head, leaving an open space at the very 
top. The ink will eat into the corn, and the open 
space will stand up like a little topknot. Make a 
hole in the back with a pin. It should be large 
enough to hold the small end of a toothpick. Cut 
a small circle of crepe or tissue paper for the dress. 
Run the toothpick through this before putting it into 
the hole in the under part of the head. 

Perhaps you will find a fairy with her head 


FUN/orWINTER DAYS 



tipped to one side and resting lightly on her white 
collar. She is the j oiliest kind of fairy. Look at 
the drawing, and you will see just how to mark her 
eyes and hair. I think she would like a fluffy dress 
with two skirts. 

All the little heads will not be round or tipped 
to one side. Sometimes they are very sharp, as shown 
by the gentleman in the picture. He should have 
two toothpicks instead of one. Then his skirt can 
be cut in the middle and twisted around the tooth¬ 
picks or legs like trousers. 

Here is a gentle nun. The heavy line across her 
forehead and down the side of her face suggests the 
veil. Does she not look sweet? 

If you find a fairy with a rather square piece 
above the round face, he is a Chinaman. I am leav¬ 
ing a little decoration at the side of his face, but this 
can be broken off. Notice how his eyes and eyebrows 
slant. Be very careful to make the marks light and 
use very little ink. 

Mr. Chinaman would like a little jacket of yel¬ 
low over his black trousers, I think. Of course, he 
must have two toothpicks for legs. 

Many other faces you can make. Some of them 
will surprise you, and it may be that some of them 
will surprise the fairies themselves. 






Y OU can have lots of fun with paper bags, for there 
are many things to make from them! 

A paper bag large enough to slip over the 
head makes a fine mask. All you have to do is to cut out 
holes for the eyes, nose and mouth. Of course, if you like, 
you may draw eyebrows, a mustache, beard, or hair with 
colored crayons. You can pretend, when you wear this 
paper-bag mask, that you are an Indian or a Chinaman, 
according to the way you have drawn and colored it. A 
Chinaman’s eyes should be cut slanting, and he should have 
a queue drawn on the top of the bag and down the back. 
An Indian’s face should be colored with blue and red 
stripes to look like war-paint. Then a few feathers may 
be stuck in the top of the bag and the mask will make the 
wearer look like an Indian brave! A clown mask is a 
funny one. Color large red polka-dots on each cheek. If 
you tie the bag in around your neck, this will make a ruffle 
such as clowns wear. 

If you want to play circus, you can imitate the head 
of a horse by pulling a large paper bag on over the face. 
To make ears, cut slits in the bag near the forehead and 
stick pieces of folded paper through to look like ears. 

When you are tired of paper-bag masks, it is fun to 
make them into hats. A large bag cut off short is best 
for a hat or cap, because it fits the head more comfortably 
than a small bag. It can be colored with crayons, too, 
and decorated with flowers and feathers in this way. Or 




you may sew or paste on colored tissue paper for trimming. 
A pretty feather with which to trim a paper bag hat is made 
by cutting one out of silver or gold paper, quill shaped. 
Jammed down on the head, a paper bag looks to be a tam- 
o’-shanter. 

A pretty paper-bag lantern may be made by cutting 
away a design in the sides of the bag, and then pasting 
colored tissue inside the bag, covering the holes. A good 
design, and one easy to make, is cut in squares, like a lat¬ 
tice. 

There are many kinds of paper houses to make from 
paper bags. A large bag cut off short will make the best 
house. After the bag has been cut to the right height, 
draw doors and windows on it, or if you like it better, cut 
them out. A chimney is made by rolling a little tube of 
paper three inches long, and then cutting a hole in the 
top of the bag and sticking it in. If you want to imitate 
a log cabin, take a brown crayon and draw lines along 
the sides of the paper house to imitate the rough logs. If 
you prefer an aeroplane house, use two paper bags—one 
large and one small—and place the smaller on top of the 
larger. A sky-scraper is easy to make. Use a tall bag 
and draw a great many windows on it, making it look like 
a tall office building. 

It’s lots of fun to make a whole paper-bag town. The 
girls can make the homes, and the boys the schools, churches, 
and down-town buildings! 



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ANNE has a bracelet, and this is how she made it: 

She cut a strip of paper an inch wide and five inches long. She 
^ folded one end exactly in half and made a dot where the fold came. 
From that dot she drew a straight line to the two opposite corners, and 
cut on those lines. (Of course she used a ruler for making her lines.) 

This gave her a piece of paper an inch wide at one end, tapering to 
a point at the other end. She began at the wide end to roll up the strip. 
The hard part of the process is to begin to roll it small enough. (If you 
have a fine knitting needle or a hat pin to roll it on, perhaps it will be 
easier to keep it small.) 

Then she tipped the point with mucilage and pasted it down upon the 
roll, holding it in place until it was dry. She took great pains to roll it 
evenly, hence the point came exactly half way from side to side of her fin¬ 
ished bead. Through this ran a hole, through which she could thread a 


needle. 

The last step was to thread a hat pin through it and varnish the bead 
completely (using white varnish), being careful to paint the ends well to 
keep it from fraying where the thread comes through. This varnish gives 
your beads of paper their finishing touch. (If you do not happen to have 
varnish at hand, a coating of glue or mucilage will do quite as well.) 

She made more beads, stringing them on a twice doubled thread of 





















silk, and wore them on her arm for a bracelet. Then she made two dozen 
larger beads for a necklace, making the strips of paper nearly an inch and 
a half wide and more than six inches long. Colored paper, cut from the 
flower pages of seed catalogs, wall-papers with gilt and silvery designs, 
tinted advertisements, all went into the collection. 

When she made a gift for a grown-up friend that loves quiet colors she 
chose rich mahogany tints and dull greens. A gay little chum was glad¬ 
dened with a chain made from pictures of flags, which she called her pa¬ 
triotic gems. With practice she acquired exceptional taste in selecting 
shades. Between the paper beads she strung glass ones of coral or tur¬ 
quoise or jet. 

Anne made many combinations, some especially beautiful, to match 
Mother’s gowns, others for herself and her friends, and you would be sur¬ 
prised to know how few of them imagined their beads were made of paper. 






















K ER-LICK, be-snick, huh-spick,” said the picks of the men work¬ 
ing in front of the house. They were digging a ditch in which 
to lay pipes. Through these pipes water would run into the 
artificial lake in the park just beyond the house where Rachel and Dickie 
lived. 

“When I grow up, I’m going to have a pick all my very own,” de¬ 
clared Dickie, “and I am going to lay pipes and pipes!” 

Usually Rachel had something to say about such a prospect as this, 
but she remained silent. “I am going to,” repeated Dickie, just as 
soon as I grow up. You’ll see.” 

Rachel turned her head from the window and looked thoughtfully at 
Dickie. “Why not lay pipes right now?” she asked. 

“Haven’t any pick, haven’t any dirt, haven’t any pipes, and 
Mother won’t let us go out,” said Dickie. 

“We can lay pipes. We can so! Right now!” 

Rachel almost shouted for joy as she started on a 
run to the kitchen, followed by Dickie. 


“Mother,” 
she cried, 
“please give us some 
macaroni. We want to 
play ‘laying pipes’ on our sand- 
table.” 

“Macaroni does look like 
pipes,” mused Mother. “Cer¬ 
tainly I’ll give you some.” 

She found a box of maca¬ 
roni in long straight sticks and 
gave the children some. Then 
she found another box filled 



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with short, curved macaroni. “This 
will help you turn the corners,” she 
told them. 

“And, please, we want a small 
platter to be the lake,” Rachel ex¬ 
plained. 

“If you are going to run water 
through your pipes,” said their 
mother, “you had better 
fasten your pipes to¬ 
gether with 


small pieces of adhesive tape. Here is a glass. 
Make a sand-hill for it to rest in and see that the bot¬ 
tom of the glass is higher than the platter. Then you’ll have 
r no trouble making the water run from the reservoir into your lake.” 

The children took all their new playthings and went back into the 
nursery. By using the curved macaroni to pass over the side of the 
glass and a part of a straight stick to go clear to the bottom of the 
glass, they soon had the joy of watching their lake fill with the water 
running through the macaroni pipes. 













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Old Fashioned 


P ERHAPS you may have found, 
tucked away in an old box, an old- 
fashioned valentine that belonged to 
Mother when she was a little girl like you. 
Such valentines are not found in the shops 
to-day, but you can make one, and 

Oh, how Mother’s eyes will shine 
At your old-fashioned valentine! 

First, find a pretty picture as large as you 
want your valentine to be. A dainty colored 
picture is best. The size of the old valen¬ 
tines was seldom more than six by eight 
inches. Sometimes a part of a magazine 
cover is just the right thing (Fig. 1). From 
gold or silver paper make a frame that just 
reaches the edge of the picture, covering the 
outside for about an inch all around but not 
hiding any of the figures. (Gold paper is 
so thin that you have to mount it on stiff 
paper before you cut it.) Make this frame 
separate from the picture (Fig. 2). Make 
a frame of lace paper—you can get it from 
candy boxes—whose outside edge is smaller 
than the gold frame and whose opening is 
the same size (Fig. 3). Make a narrow band 
of brightly colored paper that will just fit 
around the center opening (Fig. 4). 

You now have four separate openings 
(Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4). Make twelve hinges or 
springs by cutting little white strips of stiff 
paper, three-quarters of an inch long and 




















one-quarter of an inch wide, folding them 
back and forth like the pattern (Fig. 5). 
Fasten the end of one hinge on each side of 
the back of the three frames (Fig. 6). When 
the hinges are dry, attach the gold paper to 
the picture by pasting to it the other ends of 
the hinges, so that the frame is in place but 
can be slightly lifted. Fasten the lace frame 
to the gold one in the same way, and the 
colored border on top of them all. Now your 
valentine is ready to be decorated. 

Many old valentines were dotted with little 
pictures of flowers and children, none of them 
larger than a ten-cent piece. Perhaps at a 
little store you can buy these pictures in 
sheets. If you cannot, you will be able to 
find plenty of them in colored advertisements. 
Cut them out and paste them on to make the 
valentine bright. If you have any mica snow 
left from Christmas, you may brush tiny 
spots on the valentine with paste and shake 
the snow over them before the paste dries. 

Take a piece of paper that is twice as large 
as the valentine, folding once like a sheet of 
Mother’s stationery. On the front paste the 
valentine. The inside page supplies a place 
for a valentine verse, one copied from your 
old valentines, or one you make up yourself. 
When you have fluffed up your work by 
lifting the frames so that they stand out, you 
will have a lovely old-fashioned valentine. 































G ROWN people have their tele¬ 
phones, and even if little 
people can use them some¬ 
times, why shouldn’t they have their 
own, to play with whenever they like? 

It isn’t hard to make one which will 
carry from the top of the house to the 
bottom, or even to the house next door, 
although you can’t talk into it to 
Father in his office or to Grandmother 
in the country. 

All you need is two baking-pow¬ 
der cans, some very tough brown pa¬ 
per, a piece of wax, and a long stout 
string. Knock the bottoms out of the cans first of all. Then soak the 
paper in water, and stretch a piece of it over the end of each baking- 
powder can, tying it firmly down with string wound around the end 
of the can where the paper hangs over it. Take care to have the part 
which covers the end quite smooth. When the string which holds it in 
place is dry, paste a strip of dry paper over it to make it neat and to 
keep it firm. 

Now wax your string heavily and with a needle make a hole in the 
middle of the paper drumhead which covers the end of the baking- 
powder can. Through this hole run the string, making a good sized 
knot in the end inside the box so that it cannot slip through. Do the 
same with the other can and the other end of the string, and there is 
the telephone complete! 

Of course, the telephone isn’t like a real one, because you must 
both speak and listen into the baking-powder can, instead of having dif¬ 
ferent places in which to talk and to listen; but as you do not want to 
speak and listen at the same time, that doesn’t matter a great deal. And, 
of course, this telephone will not carry a long way, but you can have great 
fun playing with it for all that. Remember that the string must be 
held perfectly tight, and don’t try to use it around a sharp corner. 
Keep the line as straight as possible and don’t let it touch anything if 
you want it to do its best for you. 


YOUR, OWN 
TELEPHONE 


















ALL*BY 
YOURSELF 



C ANDY that needs no cooking is easily made. Some time when 
the nursery supper has been rice, save the cupful that was left over 
to make candy. With a cupful of sugar, a cupful of seeded rai¬ 
sins, a cupful of shredded cocoanut and an orange or lemon for flavoring, 
it will take only a few minutes to prepare it. Remember, “one” of every¬ 
thing! 

Put all in a pan or wide bowl, and with a big spoon or heavy, dull 
knife, mix and mix and mix till nobody can tell what is what. You may 
squeeze the juice from the lemon (or orange), or you may put in the pulp, 
too. But be careful not to let any seeds slip in. 

With the hands, roll your dough into balls or thin, round patties, dip 
each one separately into confectioner’s sugar, and lay on an earthen plat¬ 
ter to dry. 

If it seems too sweet for your taste, or if it is too soft, use less sugar, 
or omit to roll in the sugar after patties are made. 


































MAKING A SPOOL TOP 



A SPOOL top is made so easily that any boy or girl may have 
one. Besides, it is not hard to spin it, after you have tried it 
once or twice. 

First, get a spool from which the thread has been used. Then, start 
whittling the spool from the middle to one end until it comes to a point. 
After this is done, whittle a piece of wood until it makes a peg and insert 
this in the hole that runs through the spool so that it fits tightly. The peg 
must extend about a half-inch out of the sharpened end and must be sharp¬ 
ened like the point of a pencil. The other end of the peg must extend about 
an inch from the opposite end of the spool and does not have to be whittled. 
Now the spool top is ready for spinning. 

On a hard surface, like the 
top of a table or on the floor, 
holding the unsharpened end of 
the peg, twirl it between the 
thumb and first (or index) fin¬ 
ger, letting go of it quickly. The 
top will spin for a long time, once 
the knack of spinning it is 
gained. This is fine amusement 
for a rainy day. 


















I/jOTI I SPICKS I 

^nd. |Al O 


C ONNECT a small potato with 
a still tinier one by means of a 
toothpick. We want to make 
a stork, and the toothpick is his neck be¬ 
tween the head and body. 

Stick two more toothpicks into the 
potato (half way around) for his legs. Spread them far apart at the feet. 

For his beak, stick two picks into his head, in front, not too close to¬ 
gether, but slanted so that the outside points will touch, closing his bill. 

When the head is tilted just far enough forward to balance the body, the 
stork will stand alone on his own feet if they stride far enough apart. If 
you cannot make him stand alone, thrust his feet into a covered pasteboard 
box for a stand or mount. 

If you can find very small potatoes—new ones of different shapes are 
best—many strange creatures may be formed. One of them is the bossy. 
Two long potatoes are needed, one no bigger around than your little fin¬ 
ger, and shorter; the other twice as thick and long. Stick one on each end 
of a toothpick, but make the neck very short and the head pointed down as 
if bossy were grazing on green grass. Stick a pick through the head for 
horns, four into the potato body for legs, 
and another for the tail. 

If you are helping to cook supper, 
you might bake the potatoes first and 
serve a beastie at every plate. Wee crab- 
apples, plums, and cherries, too, can be 
made into queer animal treats. Or, a ba¬ 
nana body and an olive head is alluring. 

















T HIS is something interesting to do in the cold, dry days of winter. 

Cut out of tissue paper tiny dolls an inch tall. Find a pane of 
glass, a piece of silk not too good for rough handling (a large silk 
handkerchief will do very well), and four books a little more than an inch 
thick, a wee bit thicker than your dolls are tall. 

Arrange the four books on a table, corner to corner, around an open 
square; this makes a dance hall about the size of one of the books. Lay 
the paper dolls, eight or ten of them, flat on the dance hall floor, and for 
a ceiling put the glass on top of the books. With the silk in hand, rub the 
glass quickly back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. 

In a few minutes one doll will stand up, then another, and another, and 
another, till they are all up, some moving fast, some slowly, some standing 
on their feet, some on their hands, and some even standing on their heads 1 
Dance they all do, but they don’t seem to care a bit how they do itl 
What makes them dance? Electricity. 

They dance better in winter than they do in summer. Why? 

This form of electricity, which is called static , escapes too quickly in 

the warm, moist air of summer. 

z: r/ o n a hot day the don s won’t 

space is left open in the , / dance at all. On cold, dry days, 

tie figures dancing. / when it S tOO Cold to play OUt- 

doors, then this static electric¬ 
ity cannot escape so easily, and 
we can use it to make our tiny 
dolls dance. 














An IRISH CANOE RACE 

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F EW things are more fun on a hot summer day than having an Irish 
canoe race. When Mother plans to serve peas for dinner, ask if 
you may have two large, perfect pods and some broom straws. 
Open your pea-pods along the side, and be careful not to tear them. Take 
the peas out, but do not lose them. Your canoes are nearly ready, but 
they need benches. Take two little pieces of straw, of the same length, and 
fit one into each end of a pod. Now, the canoe has benches, and its sides 
cannot close as they did before. Make benches for the second canoe, and 
both will be ready to launch. 

Fill a good-sized pan half full of water. A dish-pan will do, although 
it need not be so large. Place a canoe carefully upon the water. See, it 
floats! 

But where are Pat and Mike, the Irish sailors? Find two perfect 
peas, one a little larger than the other. Fasten them together by sticking 
one on either end of a tiny bit of straw. Now, your sailor has a head and 
a body. Run another piece of straw clear through him for the arms, and 
take two more pieces for his legs. Then Pat will 
look somewhat like the picture which you see here. Do 
not make Pat’s arms or legs too long, or he will not 
be able to sail his boat. Place him in his canoe with his 
feet under the bench. Then make Mike, just like Pat, 
out of two more peas and the broom straw. 

When Mike is in his canoe you are ready for 
the race. Blow the canoes very gently, and Pat and 
Mike will sail across the pan. I cannot tell you who 
will be the first to reach the other side. Try it for 
yourself and find out. 









ANIMALS 

on 




PARADE 


D ID you ever see funnier little animals? They 
look as if they enjoy being funny, and, of course, 
we are glad of that. If you have white or pink 
grapes for breakfast, save some of them and have a 
regular circus parade. 

Look at the funny turtle I A long, thin grape will 
make his body. Get a clove with the round spice in it 
and push this into the front for a head. Select four 
small cloves without the round spice for the feet and 
stick them into the body. Put two in front and two 
behind, and if they are even, he will stand straight and 
firmly. If you first break the skin of the grape with a 
pin, the cloves will then push in easily. For the tail, use 
one of the tiny little sticks or ends that you will find with 
the cloves. 

The elephant will need the largest grape you can 
find for a body. His tail is like the turtle’s, only 
longer. His feet are the same, but you push the clove 
in only a little way. This gives him legs to stand upon. 
From a clove that has a round stem cut the head and stick 
the large end of the stem into the front of the grape. 
This makes him a trunk. I suppose you will want to eat 
a grape now and then. If you do, be sure to save the 
seeds—they are useful. Two of them will make your ele¬ 
phant’s ears. Break the skin at the right place and push 
the small end of the seed in and up. The large end stick¬ 
ing out will look much like an ear. And now you have 
all an elephant really needs. 










On every bunch of grapes there will be a few small 
ones which make excellent heads. Look at the cozy lit¬ 
tle duck! His head is fastened on with a toothpick that 
is run through both head and body and then cut off close 
to the body. He needs two little clove feet with spread¬ 
ing toes. For the hill, find a clove that has a broad, flat 
stem and cut the pronged part off. Push the broad end 
of the stem into the duck’s head and he will have a bill. 
Break the skin where the eyes should go and push the 
large ends of seeds into the heads. Leave only the small, 
round ends showing, and you have good eyes in your duck. 

This solemn owl is put together in the same way. His 
eyes are the same and his feet are the same. But the two 
ears make him look very different. They are small cloves 
with the pronged part cut off. The larger ends are pushed 
into the head diagonally. 

It may seem odd to have a duck, an owl, and a turtle 
almost as large as our elephant. But the land of make- 
believe has stranger things than that. 

What is this last animal I have made? I am sure 
I don’t know. Perhaps you can give it a name. It has 
a head fastened to the body with a toothpick. It has a 
tail and legs like the elephant and eyes like the duck. It 
is a strange creature, I’ll admit, but a circus parade should 
have some unusual animals. 











A DAINTY TEA-SET 

EASTER 


D O YOU know that you can make a dainty tea-set out of the dis¬ 
carded and empty egg-shells? Ask Mother when she is baking 
cakes to remove the egg from the pointed end. If the egg is 
tapped gently with a spoon, then some of the shell can be carefully re¬ 
moved. Mother may not be able to make the edges very even, but this 
will be concealed by the cardboard bands. The hole should be made just 
big enough to let the egg out, and that is all. 

As you will wish to make a teapot, a sugar-bowl, and a cream pitcher, 
you will need three egg-shells. Wash the shells inside and outside very 
carefully. The handles, bands, spouts and lid are made out of white card¬ 
board. Eight pieces cut after the pattern given for the handle will be 
needed, since two pieces must be used for each handle. Then you will 
want two pieces for the spout of the teapot; three bands for the bottoms 
of the set, and two for the tops of the teapot and sugar-bowl; one piece 
for the top of the pitcher; two lids, and four pieces for the handles on the 
lids. If one of your shells has a smaller hole than the others, use that for 
the teapot. The creamer and sugar-bowl may have larger openings. 

You must use good mucilage or liquid glue if you wish your tea-set 
to last long, and be sure the handles are so firm that you can use them to 
lift the shells without their coming off. Paste the pieces for the handles 
together in pairs, leaving spaces open at each end to spread apart and 
glue on the egg-shells. The spout for the teapot is made in the same way. 
Glue together the ends of the pieces for the spout of the pitcher, set 
over the small end of the egg-shell, and secure with glue applied to the 



edge of the paper touching the shell. The bands at the top and the bot¬ 
tom of the teapot and sugar-bowl are put on in the same way. The lids 
for these are made to fit inside the hands on the top. The round parts of 
the handles should be glued together, while the straight pieces are run 
through the slit made in the center of the lid, the part sticking through 
bent over and glued down to the inside of lid. 

After you have the pieces all glued on, let them stand where they will 
not be disturbed until the glue or mucilage has hardened. 

Now you will be ready to decorate them in any way you choose. If 
you want a white tea-set, you can use white-shelled eggs, and you can 
have a gold-banded set by using some gilt paint on the bands, handles, 
spouts and lids. You can use cream-colored eggs, and paint the handles, 
spouts and lids a pale blue, with a little gold on the edges. 

If you like to paint, you can color the sets any shade you choose, and 

decorate them with dainty little 
flowers, like forget-me-nots or 
violets, or with butterflies and 
birds. 

If you cannot paint, you 
can cut some colored flowers 
from cards or catalogues. Trim 
them neatly, and glue them on 
the sides. I am sure I should 
like a white set decorated with 




















TEA- 

TRAY 


figures or designs in Delft blue. 

You might copy some of the 
decorations you find on Moth¬ 
er’s china. 

Of course, you will warn a 
tray for the tea-set. This can 
be made out of a piece of card¬ 
board, cut eight and one-fourth 
inches by five and one-half 
inches. Mark as in the illustra¬ 
tion, and bend up at the dotted lines to make a rim about half an inch 
deep all around. Cut a slit at each corner, fold over, and glue in place. 

If you wish cups for your tea-set, when mother is boiling eggs hard 
for salad or something like that, ask her to cut them into halves with a 
sharp knife, and to remove the egg without breaking the shell. Clean the 
inside well. Glue bands at the bottom so that they will stand without 
toppling over, and fasten little handles on the side, as you did on the 
teapot. Behold your real egg-shell china teacups! 


Handle 
pattern for 
teacups ■ 

Cut here 


Thw is pretty 
covered witK 
•wall-paper . 












A GLASS SEED-BED 


H OW would you like to watch some 
little seeds grow? God has given 
each tiny seed the power to grow and 
become a plant like its mother. Some seeds 
make flowers, some make good things for us 
to eat, some make tall trees, and some make 
weeds. 

Each little plant must have soil, water, 
and light. If weeds grow in a garden, they 
take the plant food in the soil away from the 
vegetables. (Isn’t veg-e-ta-ble a long word? 
The last part of it is table to help us remember 
that we should eat vegetables every time we go 
to the table.) 

To watch seeds grow you must make a 
glass seed-bed. Cover a piece of glass with wet 
blotting-paper, sprinkle a few seeds on the 
paper and put another piece of glass over them. 
Now tie the glass together with string and put 
your bed in the sunshine. You must keep 
the blotting-paper damp and very soon you 
will see something wonderful. 

Each little seed will swell until it pops 
wide open to let out a tiny shoot. Then you 
can watch the shoots grow and put on leaves. 
Because they have no soil, the seeds will not 
make big plants, but you can have great fun 
watching them through the glass. Old camera 
plates washed off make a good size. 


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RAINY 
HAY 

A SCRAP-BOOK is fun 
to make on a rainy day, 
and when you have 
made it, it can be given to some 
little boy or girl in the hospital; 
then two people will have plea¬ 
sure out of it. 

Take some pieces of bright 
colored calico or sateen and cut 
them into strips twice as long 
as they are wide. Ten by twenty 
inches is a good size. Scallop 
or notch the edges with your 
scissors so that they will not 
fray. Then fold them across the middle of the long side so that you 
have a book of leaves without covers which, when closed, will be square. 
Open it wide, exactly in the middle, and sew right down the crease where 
the fold comes, holding the leaves together. Then paste on the leaves, as 
nicely as you can, all the bright colored pictures that you can find. 

When the pages are full, you are ready for the cover. Take a piece 
of pasteboard the size of the book when it is shut, and cover it on one 
side, as you would make a pinball, with a pretty piece of cloth, holding 




































SCRAP 

BOOK 



the cloth in place by long 
stitches running from one side 
of the pasteboard to the other. 

Cover four pieces of pasteboard 
in this way, and then sew each 
two together, all around, over 
and over. 

Now tack the covers together 
with loose stitches in two places, 
an inch from the edges, on one 
side of the cover only. Put the 
leaves between the covers and, 
where they are sewed together, 
fasten the leaves to them, so that 
they will all be held together. If you want to make your book very pret¬ 
ty, you might put little bows of ribbon over these places, as well as on 
the other side, where the book opens; then when it is not in use, it can 
be closed and tied. 

A scrap-book like this is apt not to be so attractive if it is made in 
a hurry, for it should have many pictures in it. If I were you, I should 
save it for work on rainy days, collecting every pretty picture I could 
find for it betweenwhiles. 

























W HEN squash or pumpkin is being prepared for 
dinner, ask for the seeds. Carefully clean all 
the stickiness from them and wipe them dry. 
They may have to be well washed in warm suds after that, 
and not until they are well dried can you be sure every one 
is perfectly clean and smooth. Then they will string more 
easily if they are soaked in very warm water. 

Use a big needle for the stringing, but not so large as 
a darning needle; and use—doubled—any colored thread but 
white. That soils too readily. Red, blue, green thread, silk 
or silkaline, is pretty, or, if the beads are to be all one color, 
take thread to match. A raisin seed between every two 
pumpkin seeds makes the string prettier. Cleanse them as 
you did the larger seeds, and boil them or soak in hot water 
to soften them. Do not try to color them, for their natural 
shade is best. But color the large flat seeds. If mother is 
dyeing cloth, put the pumpkin seeds into the dye, too. If 
not, depend on your paint brush. Or, you can change their 
hue with colored pencils or crayola, though that takes longer 
than paint. String by slipping the needle through from 
end to end, the “flat” way of the seed. The final touch is 
the varnishing. For that, real varnish or shellac or jap-a- 
lac may be used, or liquid glue, or the handy mucilage that 
is on every writing-desk. Varnish one side, and let it dry; 
then turn over and varnish the other side and the edges. 


Pokeweed 

T HE seeds of many other plants may be used to make 
lovely and unusual chains. There are the tiny hem¬ 
lock cones, which should be strung green. The bit¬ 
tersweet berries, which you will find in the fall, should be 
strung while they are round green halls. As they dry, they 
will pop open, one by one, and make a dancing, orange and 
yellow chain. Then, there are the pokeweed berries, which 
are a soft green if strung before they have ripened. The 
wintergreen berries dry a rich red, and berries of the moun¬ 
tain ash turn orange brown. All of you can get whole 
allspice berries. They make a fragrant as well as beau¬ 
tiful chain. 

There are many other seeds which you will find your¬ 
self. It is fun to see how big a collection of different seed 
chains you can make. 


Bittersweet 


Hemlock 


Winter^ 


reen 





W HEN the great outdoors is still 
dull and brown, wouldn’t you like 
to have fairy balls of green hang¬ 
ing at your window? A big, fat turnip 
and a full-grown carrot will make these 
fairy balls for you. Suppose you hang 
them upside down in a sunshiny place and 
see what happens. 

The leaves will come out upside down. 
Then, because nature meant them to grow 
up towards the sunlight, they will curl 
around the mother turnip or carrot and 
completely cover it. The sun is the fairy 
that turns the ugly vegetable into a beau¬ 
tiful thing. 

The last of February or the first of 
March is a good time to start the fairy 
balls. If you try it while the weather is 
still quite cold, the new leaves will chill 
at night and grow very slowly. 

Cut a slice from the root end of the 
largest turnip you can find and cut away 
half the length of the biggest carrot. 
Hollow out the inside of the vegetables, 
leaving one-half or two-thirds thickness 
for the walls. This hollow place should 
be kept full of water when the little bas¬ 
kets are hanging up in the sunshine. 

Punch three holes in the side walls, an 
even distance apart. Through these fasten 
strings to hang your little basket up by. 
Hang it in the window and fairy sunshine 
and fairy leaves will do the rest. 

































|THK A Four-Cornered^} 

«L_s§»— t——*>- Cable 

DOWN - UP • LEFT-RIGHT 

R UBY was admiring Ernest’s watch chain. “It’s just four 
silken cords, braided into a square chain,” he told her. “After 
you know how, you can braid it offhand, but while learning, 
it’s easier to start it this way—with something to hold it,” and he 
punctured a pasteboard box cover. 

“It’s better, too, to learn with stout strings,” and he took four 
thick strings of equal length and poked them down through the hole 
in the box cover and tied a knot in the four ends on the under side, 
so that they would be held there, instead of pulling out. 

After replacing the cover on the box, he spread the four protrud¬ 
ing strings in four different directions, with ends pointing north, 
south, east, and west. Then he turned the north-bound string down, 
with its end pointing south, and the southern trail he turned back to 
head north. The string pointing east was crossed to the left, and the 
western end was turned towards the rising sun. 

He repeated the process—crossed the upper to point down, and 
the lower point was turned upward, then the right-hand string went 
left, and the left came on to the right. He kept this up till he had 
used the whole length of his strings, and passed over the four-sided 
cord to Ruby. 

“Oh,” she cried, in ecstacy, “what a pretty bracelet or necklace 
I could make by braiding four strings of tiny beads!” 

There is no end to the ways you can use this four-strand braiding 
when you grow skilful. It is important to hold all four strands with 
equal tension if you wish your cable to be even. While learning, keep 
in mind the order, down, up, left, right, which you repeat as you work, 
Presently your fingers will work in that order without your thinking 
about it. 








WHAT TO DO imtk 



R IBBONS? Hair ribbons, of course. And sashes. But there are 
quantities of fascinating things that can be made from ribbon, 
even by such small hands as yours. One of the loveliest and 
easiest is the “Three Minute Rosebud.” It grows so wonderfully under 
your fingers that there seems to be magic behind it. 

These rosebuds may be made of any width ribbon, from the half¬ 
inch width, which makes tiny decorations for your hair band or girdle or 
dress, to the four- or five-inch soft satin ribbon, which will trim your hat 
with gorgeous cabbage roses that look as if they came from a shop. 

Pin a piece of ribbon to the very spot you wish to decorate, as in 
Pig. 1. Twist the ribbon around as in Figs. 2, 3, and 4. When your 
flower reaches the right size, cut the ribbon, tuck the end under, and with 
tiny stitches tack the two ends and as many of the folds as seem 
necessary. Remove the pin, and 
the decoration is finished. Isn’t 
that almost magic? 

The ribbon bouquet may be 
made quite as easily. Cut one- 
inch taffeta ribbon in pieces two 
and a quarter inches long. Run 
a gathering thread in a curve, as 
in Fig. 5. Draw up the thread 
to form the petal and twist a bit 
of wire around the base. Make 
nine or more of these petals, twist¬ 
ing their wire stems together. 

Wind the whole stem thus made 























with silk floss, securing the ends 
with glue or with a firm stitch. 

Here is something you can make 
for Mother’s Christmas gift, a 
hanger for a nightie, a scarf, or a 
sweater. Use the largest embroid¬ 
ery frame you can find. The rib¬ 
bon should be wide enough to 
cover the frame and leave a double 
frill. Either glue or sew the rib¬ 
bon on, shirring as you go. Using 
a needle to do this is rather diffi¬ 
cult and awkward. If you decide 
upon glue, apply it very sparingly 
with a spreader. Tie on the rib¬ 


bon handle and it is complete. 

A ribbon purse is easily made 
and will make another Christmas 
gift. Striped or figured ribbon 
makes the prettiest one. Take 
two pieces of six-inch wide ribbon, 
fifteen inches long. Unravel one 
end of each for fringe. Starting 
four inches from the cut ends, sew 
the opposite selvages together, 
making a tube. Gather the cut or 
upper ends upon two metal or 
glass bracelets (Ten Cent Stores 
have them). Attach a ribbon 
handle to the bracelets and knot 
the end of the bag. If you have 
made your stitches carefully. Mother or Aunt Lou will be proud to carry 
your gift. 























HOW ZQ MKE 
a japaiiESE 
DISH 
GUmED 


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A JAPANESE dish gar¬ 
den is a little garden 
made in a big dish. In 
Japan, where they know how 
to make very pretty ones, they 
copy real gardens but make 
everything small enough to go 
into a dish shaped like a platter 
or soup plate. Even the children think it's fun to make a dish garden 
and choose real gardens to copy in miniature. 

A tin or graniteware pan is fine for a dish garden. Fill it first 
with earth. Then gather together all the pretty natural things you can 
find like pebbles, rocks, moss, sand, and little plants. Instead of a 
flower garden like ours, Japanese gardens are just green, beautifully 
planted landscapes. With a spoon and knife, or with your hands, shape 
the soil in the pan like the hills or mountains in the country. 

The Japanese always imitate water in their dish gardens. An imi¬ 
tation river, lake, brook or waterfall should be planned for this tiny 
little garden. But they seldom use real water. Instead, they use sand 
of different colors. Of course, a river or brook hardly ever runs straight. 
It curves prettily here and there and, of course, runs down hill! Per¬ 
haps, if you make a mountain scene, you can make a beautiful waterfall. 
Plant the moss near the water where it would be green and cool. 

In Japanese gardens, too, there are usually stepping stones or 
bridges over the waterways. Be sure to place two or three rather 
large, flat stones near the imitation water. A bridge can be made out 
of twigs or a bit of cardboard. A little group of bushes growing near 
the water is pretty, too. Pussy-willows, or pine branches can be stuck 
in the earth to imitate trees, if you like. But if you look about 1 out¬ 
doors, in the garden, fields, or woods, you will find lots of things to plant 
that are different and make the dish garden look like real country. 
Summer is the time to collect things for making little gardens in 
winter. 


In a Japanese garden there is usually a bright colored little tea¬ 
house. This can be made from a tiny cardboard box. Paste some 
bright colored tissue paper on the sides, draw a door and some win¬ 
dows and if possible paste a tiny piece of matting on top to imitate the 
straw roofs that are found on so many Japanese houses. In a geogra¬ 
phy or on a paper Japanese fan or napkin you will find pictures that 
show how the roof spreads out and down over the house and what 
bright colors are used. 



You can sometimes buy 
wee bridges and tea-houses for 
a few cents and these will make 


your garden look quite pro- Cut out upper corners c f box ends 





with tiny bits of pink tissue paper, standing up in a ragged way like 
blossoms. The tree will then seem to be in full bloom. 

If you like, too, you can plant seeds in the dish garden. Grass 
seed, sweet peas, and nasturtiums will all come up if watered and kept 
in a warm place. If planted in a neat line, the seeds will make a fresh 
green hedge in the dish garden. 

If the first garden does not turn out so well as you expect, it is 
easy to take everything out and make another! 























D O YOU want to play a joke on your little friend,—your very best 
friend? You think people don’t like jokes, perhaps. Try this 
one and see. It is a good one. 

Are there any pretty little things of yours that your friend would like 
to have for a gift? Look them all over and then choose the tiniest one that 
you are sure will give the most joy. It must be very small to fit the little 
box you have for it. 

How small is the smallest box you have or can find? If you haven’t 
one smaller than an inch across, perhaps you can buy one, or can exchange 
some plaything or a bigger box with Mother or Auntie or Cousin or even 
the drug store man. If you mean to give Ted that button with the Presi¬ 
dent’s picture on it, or Margaret the pin with the pearl in it, it will be 
worth while to hunt quite carefully for the narrowest, shortest, thinnest box 
possible. 

Place your present in it, put on the cover, and write or print on top, 
“I wish you a very happy Birthday.” If you cannot write, take some one 
into the secret and have it written for you. 

Your next move is to get a box a 
trifle bigger than this one. Enclose 
the first box in it, put on the cover, and 
on it say, “Don’t give up—it’s in the 
next.” 

The third box may perhaps be pill¬ 
box size and not so hard to secure. On 
its cover tell your friend, “Only a good 
sport can take a joke.” 

There may be plenty of pretty 
boxes, all shapes and sizes, and with 
very pretty covers, in your house. If 
you don’t have room to write among the 
flowers, slip a scrap of paper inside or 
























lay it flat on top, with your message 
on it. Be sure there is always room 
to put the cover on without jamming 
and breaking the one inside. There is 
no end to the pleasant little notes you 
may write to your chum, but be sure to 
have only one to a box. 

“I love to play with you,” “I hope 
we’ll always agree,” and “Smile, smile, 
smile,” make fairly good mottoes. Or, 
you can copy a little verse which you 
enjoy and which seems fitting. 

As the boxes grow larger, the fun 
increases, and the last one may be so 

large that you can set it in a shoe-box or even a hat-box and still have room 
for the bright card or other picture you want to give. Tie a bright ribbon 
or colored twine around the whole. Then write, “To my Friend,” and pass 
it over with your own hands. The best of the joke is that the little box 
in the centre holds something your beloved will really want. 

Box factories make what they call “nest boxes” of different tints. But 
it is a good game to make one yourself, from odd boxes. If you tie each 
cover on its own box with baby ribbon, as you go along, the effect is still 
prettier. 


OPINING m LITTLE BOX IN THE CENTER 























x ETHEL GOT HER DOLL READY 

BOARDING SCHOOL 

E THEL’S big sister Dorothy had gone away to hoarding-school at 
a lovely place up on the Hudson River, in New York. When 
Dorothy went, she had a lot of pretty new clothes, and Ethel had 
a great deal of fun watching the trunk being packed. But after Dorothy 
left, Ethel felt lonesome until she decided to get her doll, Ethel Linda, 
ready for boarding-school. 

Ethel Linda was a very pretty doll, with brown eyes that opened and 
shut. She had just had her golden hair bobbed, and Ethel pretended that 
her doll was fifteen years old. Ethel Linda was very much pleased to go 
away to boarding-school, especially when Ethel told her that big sister 
Dorothy had gone there, and that it was a lovely place, where she would 
learn a great deal and have a good time besides, and that she was going to 
make her some new dresses. 

First, Ethel hunted up Ethel Linda’s trunk, to see how much room 
there was in it. She wanted Ethel Linda to have seven new dresses, one 
for each day in the week. When she found that there would not be quite 
room in the trunk for so many clothes, she found a brown candy box that 
looked somewhat like a leather suitcase, and carefully brushed it out to 
use for Ethel Linda’s extra luggage. 

The first dress she planned for Ethel Linda was a school suit. She 
made a plain gathered skirt of blue serge. Then she planned a middy of 
white cloth that was very easy to make, because it just slipped over the 
head. The only seams to sew up were under the arms and sleeves, be¬ 
cause it was cut by a simple kimono pattern that Ethel’s mother gave her. 

All the rest of Ethel Linda’s boarding-school clothes were cut by the 
same kimono pattern. Some were full length, one-piece dresses, instead of 
skirts and slip-over blouses. One dress, that seemed to be Ethel Linda’s 
favorite, was pink crepe, and with it she wore a piece of black velvet baby 
ribbon for a sash. Ethel decided that would be her Sunday dress. Her 
middy blouse and blue skirt were her Monday dress. For Tuesday she 
had a yellow plaid made out of scraps from one of Ethel’s own dresses. 





Ethel sewed some riekrack braid all around the neck, sleeves, and the bot¬ 
tom of the skirt. The Wednesday dress was a cozy, warm one. It was 
made of bright red cashmere, and Ethel sewed a piece of black silk braid 
down on the left side of the waist, from the shoulder to the belt, making it 
look like a Russian blouse. Ethel Linda’s Thursday dress was a pretty 
blue muslin, and Ethel’s mother showed her how to trim the dress with 
pink feather-stitching. For Friday she made Ethel Linda a light green 
cotton dress, and sewed a pink gingham collar on it. Besides, she found 
some pink ribbon for a sash. For Saturday, Ethel Linda needed a play 
dress that would not show the dirt. Ethel made her a skirt and slip-over 
of black and white checked gingham. But she put on a red collar to make 
it pretty. 

Ethel Linda was very happy to have so many lovely new dresses. For 
a whole week she sat and watched Ethel pack her trunk, because it took all 
that time to make the dresses and get ready. But when it was nearly time 
to start for boarding-school, Ethel remembered that her doll had no wraps! 
She hunted, and found a nice little crocheted tam-o’-shanter that Ethel 
Linda used to wear. But she had to make a wrap. Mother gave Ethel 
a smooth piece of brown cloth that made a lovely warm cape when it was 
lined with silk all flowered with pink roses. Around the neck, Ethel sewed 
a little fur collar, and then Ethel Linda was pretty and warm, and all 
ready for boarding-school. 











UNCOOKED 
CANDY 



P URE candy is good for little folk, in proper quantities and at 
proper times, and certain candies are so easily made that even small 
hands can make them. One of the easiest confection bases is called 
“fondant,” of which there are many kinds. We will try an uncooked kind 
called “potato fondant” since it is easiest to handle, almost impossible to 
spoil, and is more luscious than some kinds which are harder to make. 

Your first step is to boil a potato. Peel while still hot, and mash till 
every lump is smooth. Clean hands come next,—scrubbed, nail-brushed 
hands, as sweet and white as soap and water will make them. Now into 
your mashed potato mix all the confectioner’s sugar that it will hold. 
Mould and work it in till the dough will receive not another grain. Then 
behold, your fondant! From this base you may form an endless variety 
of candies. 

For coloring, there is always the favorite chocolate, or—cheaper and 
just as reliable—Baker’s Cocoa. Fruit juices make pretty shades and 
Mother may sometimes give you a little of the coloring she uses in frost¬ 
ing her cakes. For flavoring use vanilla or almond or any other you hap¬ 
pen to have. 
























































A fascinating confection is made by using a raisin, almond or other 
nut meat, a bit of fig or date, or even the humble prime (without its stone) 
for the heart of a candy marble, coating it round with fondant. 

Cocoanut, too, either shredded by package, or the real nut meat run 
through the food-chopper, alone or mixed with white of an egg and browned 
in the oven after working into the fondant, is delicious. If you have an 
older person to help, you can make a much desired variety by dipping one 
of these in chocolate, melted in a bowl placed in the teakettle opening, 
but it is too difficult for little folk to try alone. 

Fancy shapes make your bonbons still more alluring. Your own in¬ 
genuity will tell you how to make them. Cut four inch squares of oiled 
paper to wrap your candies separately, and pack in little fancy boxes. 

Did you ever try making a candy man—with a white drop for a head 
(with currants for eyes), smaller white drops for fists and feet, and a 
chocolate colored body? Red fruit juice makes the mouth a luscious red. 

















Y OU have often read in fairy tales about gardens made of candy. 
Would you like to make one? Of course, it won’t be big enough 
for you to play in, but your littlest doll will appreciate it, and if 
you leave it for her it will last a long time. 

Candy gardens may be made very elaborate, with houses and fences 
and parks, but they are all made alike, and I will tell you how to make 
the simple ones. 

You need a quarter of a pound of small spiced gum-drops, both long 
and round, ten cents worth of the colored candies that look like pills, a 
spool of fine green wire, and perhaps some green paper. Scraps of the 
paper will be enough. 

First, on a piece of cardboard about five inches square, which is to be 
the foundation of the garden, mark off the place where the flowers are to 
grow. Paint the grass green and leave the walks white. You may cut 
green paper to fit the garden plot and paste that on very neatly, if you 
like. Now cut about twenty-five lengths of green wire from 2y 2 inches to 
1 inch long. Make a little curve in one end of each piece and bend the wire 
so that the curve is at right angles to the stem. 


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With a strong pin make as many holes in the garden space as you wish 
flowers. Scatter the holes irregularly. Put the wires in from the wrong 
side, the longest ones near the edge, the smallest ones near the walk. Push 
them in until the curve is flat against the cardboard, and put a drop of 
glue on each curve. Now you will have to wait until the glue dries. 

When the little wires are all standing up like the stalks of last year’s 
garden, take each gum-drop, stick a pin in it to make a hole, put a tiny drop 
of glue on the end of each wire, and fasten the candy on the wire. Be sure 
that your colors are assorted. If you want leaves, cut little crepe paper 
ones and fasten them on the stems. Or, if you like, you may cut a long 
green gum-drop lengthwise and fasten it as you did the flowers. When the 
candies are all tight, bend the wires so that they droop gracefully. 

Border the paths with the little colored candies, or, by putting them on 
wires a quarter of an inch long, stick them into the long gum-drops for 
hedges. There are many things you can do, now that you know how to 
begin. If you want a candy house, make it of opera sticks, like a log cabin. 

A little garden on top of a box which is to hold candy is very attrac¬ 
tive. The round paper boxes that are used to carry home ice cream or 
sodas are just the thing. Wash them carefully as soon as they are emp¬ 
tied and put them away until you want to make your mother or teacher a 
very special gift. 




















P LAYING with Spinners is a game for upstairs windows, high bal¬ 
conies, and high walls. The Spinners described below were tested 
from the roof of a five-story apartment house. The weather should 
be fairly calm for good “spinning.” 

Scissors, a knife, burnt matches and newspaper are the simple materi¬ 
als which one needs to construct these darts. More elaborate ones can be 
made by using colored papers, and sparkling silvery ones can be created by 
using tin-foil. 

The Mapaspin in Diagram 1 is the simplest one to make. If you take 
a two-inch square of paper and cut it diagonally, you will have material for 
two of these spinners. Take the point B and bend it forward until it meets 
C, then crease on the line ED. Then take the point A and bend it backward 
until it touches C, creasing on the line EF. Now bend these wings up so 
that they stand more or less perpendicular to the central square. Take a 
match or toothpick, force a knife into its end so that it divides slightly but 
does not break. Insert the point C of your paper in the split that you have 
created and your dart is ready to toss overboard. 

The two types in Plate 2 
are made in the same way, the 
only difference being in the 
shape of the paper. 

Number 3 is a kind of pa¬ 
per windmill made from a two- 
inch square of paper, which, 
when finished, is attached to a 
match with a pin, as shown. 

























If it does not ride 
the air well, use a 
twig longer and 
somewhat heavier 
than a match, or 
weight the* end of 
the match with a 
piece of tin-foil. 

Number 4 is 
made from tin-foil, 

three inches long and an inch and a half wide, which makes a fine piece of 
aircraft. The kind that comes around candy, chocolate and cigarettes is all 
good to use. This material can be shaped by hand, and performs in the 
air better than any other substance 
which I have used. The top should 
be bent like the blades of a propeller, 
and the shaft of the dart is made by 
rolling the tin-foil between the 
hands. 

With the exception of the wind¬ 
mill, I have named these darts ac¬ 
cording to the material from which 
they were made. The Tifospin gets 
the first four letters of its name from 
an abbreviation 
of tin-foil. Can 




you guess why the others are named as they are? 

Mother Nature was really the first to invent spin¬ 
ners, for she needed the wind to help her plant her 
trees and flowers. Many seeds seem to have aeroplanes 
of their own, and with their help the seeds can travel 
sometimes a long distance from the mother tree. Thus 
the seed has a far better chance to root and grow than 
if it fell straight to the ground. 



































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FUN 




MAKING A FARM 


I T is lots of fun to make little farms outdoors. A good-sized farm 
is six by three feet. If your playmates want to make them, too, you 
can build a little village. An end of the back yard, a vacant lot, or a 
sandy place, is a good location to lay out the farm. 

To make a regular farm, copy a real one, if possible. If you do not 
know all the things that should be on it, look through some books and 
magazines, and you will see how many interesting things there are. Besides 
a house, barn, and shed, there are windmills, wells, cow yards, sheep pas¬ 
tures, silos, cornfields, woods, fruit orchards, vegetable patches, beehives, 
brooks, and bridges. 

The materials to make the farm can be found outdoors. The more 
you look around thoughtfully the more you will find to make the farm look 
natural. Sticks, stones, bricks, sand, straw, moss, grass, and flowers all 
help to make a good-looking farm. 

After a square of land is chosen, the first thing is to plan the place 
to build the house and barn. These buildings can be made of wooden boxes, 
sticks put together like a log cabin, or they may be built of bricks, wood 
or stone. The buildings should be small enough so that they will not crowd 
the other things on the farm. After the buildings are made, probably you 
will want to make the driveway. It is a good plan to sand this. Near the 
house should be a well. You can copy the old-fashioned kind from books, 
and make a well sweep with a twig and a string. The “oaken bucket” can 
be carved out of a peach-stone. Near 
the barn, fence in a cow yard. Matches 
that have been used will make this 
fence. Toothpicks or twigs also will 
make a good fence. If you happen to 
have any animals from a Noah’s ark, 
put them in the cow yard. 

All around the farm build a stone 
wall. At the entrance it is fun to have 


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a gate with bars to be pulled out, just 
as on real farms. A wooden clothes¬ 
pin put on each side of the driveway 
will hold slats in to look like this kind 
of gate. 

If your playmate has a farm, too, 
and you trade hay and other things, the 
bars must be pulled down when the 
hay-wagon comes in. 

A farm with grain-fields, vegetable gardens, fruit trees, and woods 
always looks best. To imitate a grain-field, sow some grass seed. Moss 
can be transplanted, too, but it must be planted in a shady place and kept 
wet. 

A little pond on the farm can be made by digging out a shallow hole 
the size of a tin pan. Put the tin pan in the hole, fill it with water. Then 
all around the edge put pebbles and moss, or plant some flowers or shrubs 
to look like trees. Branches of evergreens stuck several inches into the 
ground will keep green for quite a while and make good-looking trees. A 
small boat should be either floating in the pond or tied near by. A little 
landing place, too, should be built. If the pond is near another farm, it is 
fun to build a bridge across. 

Lots of things for the farm can be made out of strawberry boxes or 
cigar boxes. A tall glass bottle or jar can be buried to hold water in the 
well. Many wagons are needed on a farm to haul things in. A flat board 
three by six inches only needs four wooden spools underneath and a string 
to pull it! 

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fl Drinking Cup EflsiiyJiflDE 


W HY bother with taking a glass or cup with 
you to school, on a picnic, or any other 
place, when you can make a paper cup in 
one minute that does not have to be washed or carried 
about? The sanitary drinking cup, so widely recom¬ 
mended, can be made in less time than it would take to 
hunt through a grip or basket for a cup. 

A piece of paper about eight inches square is all 
that you need. Wax paper or letter paper, in fact, 
any paper that is not too thin, will answer the pur¬ 
pose. Fold paper to form a triangle as shown in the 
illustration. Find the middle points of lines AC and 
BC. Take lower corner B and fold it over to the point 
half way between A and C, making the new edge BD 
parallel to the long edge of the triangle. Take the 
corresponding corner A and fold it in the same way to 
the point half way between B and C. Now turn one 
of the corners at C into the little pocket made by fold¬ 
ing the other comers over as you have already done. 
Fold the other corner down on the other side and your 
cup is made. 





























S AND coloring is good sport and keeps little hands busy in 
both sunshiny and rainy weather. This is how to do it. 

Choose fine white sand, sifting, if necessary, to make it 
perfectly clean. Use Easter egg dyes. Dissolve them in water and 
pour a little of the dye on a pan of sand. Stir until the dye and 
the sand are thoroughly mixed, then let it dry. The result is won¬ 
derful colored sand. By mixing the dyes and using more or less 
water, one can make almost any shade or color desired and it is great 
fun to experiment with the mixtures. 

Do the dyeing out of doors and keep the colored sand carefully 
separated in pans and boxes ready to fill in glass bottles. 

The next rainy day, plan to fill the bottles, as mother will prob¬ 
ably allow you to bring the clean sand into the house. Use a small 
funnel, one made of paper will do, and put the sand into the bottles 
in layers or patterns. Beautiful color combinations and many 
pretty designs may be made, and one may even make flower de¬ 
signs and Indian patterns by careful work. Sometimes a solid color 
is found more attractive. 

After the bottles are filled, cork them tightly. A large pretty 
one with a ribbon about its neck would make a lovely door stop for 
Mother’s bedroom door, and a cold-cream jar filled with rainbow 
colors would make a nice paper-weight for Daddy’s desk. 



















































































































CIRCLE CIRCUS folks 

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W HEN it rains or snows and you 
can’t go outdoors, you will like 
this idea for a circus to be held 
on the big table where mother lets you cut 
out and paint. All you need is white card¬ 
board or stiff paper, a compass or something 
to make circles of different sizes—a dollar, a 
penny, and a quarter will do, or tops from 
baking-powder cans of assorted sizes—and a 
box of wax crayons, pencils, and a ruler. 
Your animals’ heads and bodies must be cir¬ 
cles or parts of circles. They may be colored 
in all the colors of the rainbow, if you wish. 
If you cannot think of enough real animals, 
invent some, like a Walipotimus, which has 
green and white stripes down its back, and 
drinks English breakfast tea. 

The animals may be placed in cages, with 
bars wide apart, cut from brown wrapping 
paper. Here are a few of the circle circus 
folk to give you an idea how they are made. 


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•5SS^^5SsB35fc«S*SsSS5SS can make one in half an hour if there is 
a brown rubber bath sponge—the crinkly kind—in your bathroom. If not, 
perhaps Mother will let you buy one at the drug store. They do not cost 
much. 

As you hold the sponge in your hand, wrap a string very tightly 
around the top of it at point A, as shown in the drawing. This will draw 
in the neck and form the head. Two black shoe buttons, with a spot of 
white oil paint on each one, can be sewed on for eyes, and the head is 
finished. 

Make two cuts in the sponge at points marked B. The two little 
pieces will fly out, and when tied at the top and in the middle with string, 
will make very fine arms. The rubber will bulge out over the string and 
hide it. This little lady wears a rubber apron cut from an old water bot¬ 
tle or bathing cap. The apron strings are sewed in the back. If you do 
not find something for the apron, you may sew tiny buttons down the 
front of the dress. 

The little Dutch boy is made the same way except that his hair is cut 
Dutch fashion. The line C is cut, and the ends of the legs tied with 
string to make feet. This boy wears a 
leather belt or a row of small buttons 
to show where his trousers join his 
waist. 

Now the bath babies are ready to 
swim and splash with you. They will 
even scrub you if you ask them to. 










KING A PORCH FO 
THE a * DOLLS 


W HEN the weather is warm the dolls would like a cool place 
where they may enjoy the open air like grown-ups. A corner of 
the family porch, or a little nook in the garden under a tree or 
in a summer house is a good place to choose for the doll’s porch. 

To make it comfortable it should be furnished with chairs, tables and 
a hammock. On the floor or ground place a rug. There are lots of ways 
to make a doll’s pretty porch rug. One is to cut a piece of burlap nine 
by twelve inches square and fringe it all around. If the burlap is tan 
color, to make it brighter buttonhole-stitch the edges all around with red 
and green wool yarn. To make it look like the newest kind of rugs on 
grown-up porches take a green crayon and make a checkerboard plaid in 
inch squares. Another cosy rug is made by braiding three strips of cloth 
an inch wide together and then sewing them around and around into a neat 
oval mat. Either cotton or wool rags make a fine braided rag rug. Pretty 
colors to braid together are green and white, which is cool-looking in sum¬ 
mer, or such combinations as blue and yellow, or pink, green and white. 
If you have some raffia, this, too, can be braided into a neat rug. Or, if 
you prefer, several small rugs, instead of a large one, can be used on the 
dolls’ porch. 

The chairs can be made out of cardboard or wooden strawberry boxes, 
or* best of all, out of twigs and branches, twisted, tied or glued together. 
When little dry twigs of trees are used they make rustic furniture that 
looks like the kind grown-ups use in gardens. Strong brown string or fine 
wire wound tightly will hold the twigs together firmly and will not show. 
The seats of the chairs and the table tops can be woven of very slender 
twigs in a checkered pattern, or they can be cut out of cardboard. 

To make the chairs comfortable and the porch cosy, be sure to make 
plenty of pretty sofa cushions. Bed and white checked gingham pillows 
are very stylish. But burlap, silk and other scraps will make a variety. A 





good size to make these pillows is two inches square, but oblong and round 
pillows are very smart. Stuff them with rags, tissue paper or grass. Sofa 
pillows, too, are needed for the hammock. 

There are several ways to make the hammock, and it should be hung so 
securely that the dolls will not fall out. You can choose between making 
a couch hammock or the kind that curves down in the middle. To make a 
couch hammock, first make a large, comfortable pad measuring eight inches 
long and four inches wide. Use two pieces of strong cloth the same size 
and sew them together like a pillow. Stuff lightly, slip in a piece of card¬ 
board the same size to keep the hammock seat from sagging in the middle. 
After it is all sewed up, take a darning needle and with colored string tack 
here and there and tie in a double knot as you would in a mattress. The 
seat is now done. To make the back and sides of the couch hammock, take 
a double thickness of the cloth sixteen inches long and sew around three 
sides. The hammock is all ready to hang up then, if you tie strong string 
onto the four corners and find a good branch of a tree to swing it from. 

The other kind of hammock is easier to make: Cut a strip of 
burlap, cretonne, canvas or straw matting eight inches long and four 
inches wide. If you use matting, overcast the ends with raffia, using a 
strong darning needle. If the hammock is cut out of cloth, hem it neatly all 
around. Next, tie in four or five pieces of strong string at equal distances 
on each end. Cut them off an inch and a half long and tie together fan¬ 
shaped. The hammock is then ready to be hung up. 











































©W PLMf 

I T IS great fun to roll about 
in the snow, to make snow 
men and to throw snow¬ 
balls. Such plays grow tire¬ 
some after a while and you 
want new ones. However, there 
are many other things clever 
boys and girls can do with snow. Perhaps you have never heard about them. 

Nearly every one knows how to roll up a big ball when the snow is 
just moist enough to stick together. One such ball is worth looking at. 
A whole row of them out in your front yard is a sight to make people 
stare as they pass by! When you have made a whole row, you can change 
them into other things if you want to, 

A tunnel can be made through one of the largest of these balls by 
scooping out a hole from one side to the other. With two people work¬ 
ing, one on each side, it is quickly done. 

Another thing you can do with a big ball is to make a chair that you 
can really sit in. With your shovel, scoop out the seat and shape the arms 
and back. When it is finished it will look exactly like a snow-queen’s throne. 

If snowballs are made all the 
same size they are fine for building 
material. You can lay them one on 
top of the other and make houses, 
bridges and towers, just as you do 
with building blocks. The best of 
it is, that these snow-blocks will not 
bother you by tumbling down as the 
wooden blocks do. Since they stay in 
place, you can build bigger and bet¬ 
ter things with them. 

A capital game for several chil¬ 
dren working together is to build an 
igloo. That is the name of the house 










the Eskimo lives in.* It is 
made of large square chunks of 
snow packed together. When 
there is a snow crust you can 
build with squares. Otherwise 
use big snowballs for bricks. 

You begin by drawing a circle 
and then you build up a wall of 
snow on that. As your wall 
gets higher, you slope it inward 
toward the center so that it finally closes together at the top in the shape 
of a dome. Make a little opening at the bottom just large enough to crawl 
through, and cut out another opening higher up to let in light. 

In winter time you can play bakery out of doors, filling your counter 
with the most lovely looking cakes made from snow. Pack the snow into 
all the molds and pans you can find and then turn them out. You can 
decorate these snow cakes and make them look very pretty, indeed. 

But the greatest fun of all is to put a face on every tree. On the 
trunk of the tree stick two balls of snow for eyes and another ball for a 
nose. Then, with a ridge of snow, shape a good-natured, wide mouth 
that turns up at the corners just like the mouth of a pumpkin at Hallow¬ 
e’en. The tree trunks are so wide that these jolly white faces just stare 
and grin as if the trees were alive and laughing. 

* If you ever have a chance to see that wonderful film, “Nanook of the North,” do not miss it. 

















D ID you ever eat ice-cream made from new- 
fallen snow? If you have not, watch for the 
next snow storm. Then ask Mother to make 
some for you or to let you make it yourself. 

The snow must be of large, soft flakes, not the 
least bit icy. You must use it as soon as it falls, be¬ 
fore any little specks of dirt can get into it. 

Have everything ready before you begin. That’s 
the way to do a good piece of work. Place on the 
table: 

A large bowl A teaspoon % cup sugar 
A measuring cup An egg-beater % CU P m dk 
A tablespoon 1 egg 1 tsp. vanilla 

Break one egg into the bowl and beat till it foams 
beautifully. 

Then put in one-half cup of sugar and beat some 
more. 

Now take out the egg-beater and rinse it. You 
are finished with it. 

Pour into the bowl one-quarter cup of milk taken 
off the top of the bottle and one teaspoonful of vanilla. 
Stir this in with the egg, using the tablespoon. 
Now some one must go outdoors to get snow. Get 
a big pan full, from a nice, smooth, clean place. As 
soon as it comes into the house, and before it can melt, 
begin putting large spoonfuls of the snow into the 
bowl. Keep stirring it in until the ice-cream is thick. 
It must be eaten quickly. You must expect it to be 
softer than if it were made in a freezer. It will taste 
perfectly delicious, however, and it will be your ice¬ 


cream. 





RAINY DAY 


B ARBARA climbed up on a chair so that she could talk into the 
telephone. “Aunt Betty,” she called, “this is the third rainy day 
this week, and I don’t know what to do with myself. Do you 
know any new games I could play alone?” 

It was some time before Aunt Betty answered. “Yes,” she said at 
last. “Yesterday, when I saw little lame Jerry at the hospital, I thought 
of a new game for you.” 

“Oh, tell me what it is,” said Barbara, jumping up and down on 
her chair. 

“Get some old magazines,” continued her aunt, “and look over the pic¬ 
tures very carefully. When you find a fairly good-sized one that you like, 
cut it out and paste it on a piece of stiff paper or pasteboard and let it 
dry under a weight. With a ruler and pencil mark it out in squares and 
diamonds. When you have divided it into a great many parts, cut along 
your pencil marks and if you do it carefully, you’ll have as fine a picture 
puzzle as you could buy.” 

“Oh, I think that’s lots of fun,” cried Barbara excitedly. 

“And,” continued Aunt Betty, “when you’re tired of putting it to¬ 
gether, write the name of the picture on an envelope, put the picture in¬ 
side and send it to some little boy or girl like Jerry.” 

“I’ll make some puzzles right away,” said Barbara. “You think of 
such fine things to do, Aunt Betty.” 

“That’s easy enough when you go by my rainy day rule,” laughed 
Aunt Betty. “Listen carefully and I’ll tell you what it is. 

There’s never a time when there’s nothing to do 
For some one who isn’t so lucky as you. 

Just look all about you , you’ll soon find a way 
To shorten the dullest and longest wet day. 

Follow that rule, Barbara dear, and good luck with the puzzles! Good-bye.” 



SANDPILE 
BEACH 

B ETTY was feeling disappointed 
because her father had gone to 
the beach that afternoon and, 
as it was a business trip, had decided 
not to take her. 

“There’s not much fun here with 
this old sand pile,” she said to Jane, 
her playmate, who was with her in the 
backyard. 

“I know!” answered Jane, “let’s make it into a beach!” 

“That would be fun. But how shall we do it?” 

“Oh, make it look just like a real beach, and then we can get our 
dolls and let them have fun, too.” 

“First we must make the ocean!” exclaimed Betty. “But, oh dear! 
Mother doesn’t like me to play with water or the hose in the afternoon 
when I have on a clean dress.” 

“I’ll tell you,” said Jane, “let’s get a sheet of blue or green paper 
that we can pretend is the ocean. Maybe I can get that big piece of 
blotting-paper left over from our writing-desk!” 

She ran home, and soon brought it back. 

In the meantime, Betty had been working busily in the sand pile. 
She had a large flat place scraped away with her shovel. 

“I’ll put the ocean right there,” said Jane, as pleased as could be, 
Betty helped her smooth out the blotting-paper. 

“Now we must make a ‘shore line,’ ” said Betty. With her hands 
she curved the sand away from the edge of the green blotter to look 
just the way the shore line does when the ocean washes away the sand 
along the coast. 

Jane was making a very real beach, slanting upward from the ocean. 
First it was very smooth, and then she made it soft where the people 
walked a lot. 









“I know what we can do!” exclaimed Betty. “Let’s make tents and 
awnings and parasols for the people to sit under!” She ran into the house, 
and in a few minutes came out with a handful of odds and ends of bright 
colored paper. 

“Oh, the orange crepe paper is just what we need for an awning,” said 
Jane. “But I’m going to make some black stripes on it with a crayon.” 
She did this, frilled the edge of the crepe paper by pulling it gently be¬ 
tween her thumb and forefinger, and then stuck the four comers of the 
awning onto four sticks standing up in the sand. 

Betty made a lot of pretty awnings, too. One was cut out of a piece 
of stiff gray paper (from an advertising book cover) in the shape of a 
circle. She stuck this on a strong stick and it made a good beach umbrella. 

When Jimmy, the boy who lived next door, heard the girls talking and 
laughing, he came over. “Say, that’s a fine beach you have!” he exclaimed. 
“But you ought to have some boats on the ocean!” 

“Make us some!” said Jane. 

“I’ll not have time to whittle one out of wood, now,” answered Jim¬ 
my, “but I can fold up some out of paper.” 

Betty took the black crayon and printed names on the sides of the boats 
just the way sea captains name their ships. One was the Betty Jane; an¬ 
other was Jimmy, and a third she named Frolic. 

“Let’s have that for a sailboat,” suggested Jane. She made a sail out 
of tissue paper and pinned it on the Frolic. 

Just then Betty’s father came home. What do you suppose he brought? 
A box of pebbles and sea shells! 

“Now we can have a real beach!” they all exclaimed. Then they scat¬ 
tered the pebbles and shells all over the pretty beach they had made in the 
sand pile. 











PLAYING BAKERY 



I DON’T think it’s much fun to make mud pies, do you?” Betty asked 
Jane one morning when they were playing together in the back 
yard. 

“I’ll tell you what let’s do,” said Jane, “let’s have a bakery with the 
sand-pile.” 

“And make all kinds of things to sell?” asked Betty. “Oh, let’s!” 

She hunted around and found all the dishes, tin cans and flower-pots 
she could, to use for mixing-bowls and molds. 

“I’m going to make cookies,” said Jane. “But first let’s have some 
show-cases and counters to make our things look attractive for customers.” 

“Yes, if we make the front of the sand-pile into a set of steps, they 
will look like shelves, and we can use the sand back of them for our cook¬ 
ing.” Betty moistened the sand with a little water, and then, with a stick, 
smoothed the sand into four steps about a foot wide, and with a shingle 
cut them as neatly as could be. 

Jane put half a dozen cookies on the very first shelf. 

“What kind are they?” asked Betty. 

“Raisin,” said Jane, laughing, “but I forgot the raisins.” Under the 
morning-glory vines of the back porch were lots of little round, black seeds 
that had dropped off, and Jane hurried to get some to sprinkle on her 
cookies, pretending they were raisins.. 








“Everybody loves doughnuts,” said Betty, who was busy with a spoon 
mixing some mud in a pail. “I’m going to make the best kind—sugar 
doughnuts.” With her hands she shaped a batch of doughnuts and put 
them on the second shelf. Then she sprinkled them lightly with dry sand, 
and they looked exactly as if they were covered with sugar. 

“Next, I’ll make a sand layer cake,” Betty said, “if you’ll frost it.” 

Jane mixed up a chocolate frosting out of mud, while Betty made a 
large, round sand cake. 

“Put the frosting on with a spoon, Jane, and I’ll put the second layer 
on then.” 

“It’s such a fine cake it would be lovely for a birthday party,” replied 
Jane. Just then a customer came to the bakery. It was Jimmy, the boy 
next door. 

“What will you have?” asked Betty. 

“A custard pie!” exclaimed Jimmy. “My kingdom for a custard pie 1” 

“Oh,” said Jane, “we’re very sorry, but we are out of that just now. 
Would a chocolate cake do?” 

“Oh, I like pie best,” said Jimmy. 

“Then,” exclaimed Betty, “we’ll make you a special pie to order. It 
will be a cocoanut custard pie. It’s going to be our Saturday morning spe¬ 
cial.” She mixed it up, and then got some daisy petals, which she sprinkled 
all through the pie. This made it look just as if it were filled with 
shredded cocoanut. 

Jane was* finishing the chocolate layer cake. She made it into a birth¬ 
day cake by putting a wreath of flowers around it and printing on top of 
it, with tiny pebbles, the year in which it was made. 




MUSHROOM 



M USHROOMS and their cousins and brothers are not good 
things for small hoys and girls to handle. You should never 
touch any member of the mushroom family growing in the woods 
or fields unless Mother or Father or some one much older than you says 
it is safe to do so. If they are wise, they will look at it very carefully 
before they let you go near it. 

Sometime when you are walking in the woods and fields with Mother 
or Father or Teacher, get them to show you some mushrooms that are not 
dangerous. Pull these by the stems very gently. Be extremely careful 
not to hurt the top or cap. Carry them home and place them in a safe 
place where they will not get broken. The members of the mushroom fam¬ 
ily are delicate and fragile and will not stand rough handling. 

To make the designs: Get a piece of clean white paper, it must be 
very smooth, and pin it to the table, over the cloth. Now take a mushroom 
and with a knife cut off the stem just level with the bottom of the cap. Be, 
oh, very careful not to touch the bottom of the cap. Lay the cap, bottom 
down, on the paper and cover it with a tumbler. The paper should be 



much larger than the mushroom and tumbler. In about five or six hours 
lift the glass off. Be very careful not to move the mushroom. When you 
have taken the glass off gently, lift the mushroom most carefully. Lift it 
straight up from the paper. 

What a wonderful design you will see on the paper! The design is 
made by the small seeds or spores which fall from the bottom of the cap to 
the paper. 

But this pretty design will not last. If you breathe hard upon the 
paper it will soon be gone. But there is a way to make these tiny seeds 
which make up the design, stick to the paper: Before you place the cap on 
the paper, take your mucilage and brush and paint the paper with the mu¬ 
cilage. Then let it dry. After the paper has dried, do just as before; 
place the cap on the paper, mucilage side up, then place the tumbler over 
the cap. 

You can make a wonderful and beautiful collection of these designs 
if you do just as I have told you. 


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VITH MUCILAGE. JSOT TOUCH BOTTOM OF CAT 



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COVER VITH TUMBLERS. UP - BEVERV CAREFUL. 








BOXES' FOIL CHRISTMAS' 


HRISTMAS presents are much more attractive if they are packed 



in pretty boxes, and a decorated box may be a gift in itself, espe- 


daily if it is filled with sugared pop-corn, or nut kernels, or simple 
candy that you yourself can make. Perhaps Mother has been saving boxes, 
but if she hasn’t, you can get the sort you want by asking the druggist or 
the little store at the corner. They throw them away every day. You 
would be wise to begin collecting them at once, for at Christmas every¬ 
body wants them. 

For a little gift, like a pen-wiper, or a doll’s hat, or a little pincush¬ 
ion, one of the boxes in which sundaes are sent home is just the thing, 
They are tan in color, and sometimes they are lined with paraffin, but the 
outside takes water-color or paste very well indeed. 

You have often looked at the lovely colored advertisements in the 
magazines and wished there were something else you could do with them 
besides make scrap-books. Now you can use them all. 

Fit a piece of plain paper tightly around the top of the sundae box, 
pushing it in place so that it will be the exact size, and, using it for a pat¬ 
tern, draw a pencil line around a picture that fits in the circle. Spread your 
paste evenly all over the back of the picture, and put it on the lid of the 
box, taking care not to get paste anywhere on the picture. 


From the same picture, or perhaps another with the same coloring, 
you can cut a long strip for the side of the DieTUD * c " TTnFiT,, ^ i: 


solving in a bowl a little of the dye that 
Mother uses to tint her waists, dip both cover 
and box before you put the picture on top, 


box, and another little narrow strip for the 
side of the cover. The strip on the box side 
must be pasted on very carefully so that the 
lid will fit over it. If that is too hard, you 
may paint the box with water-colors, or, dis¬ 


* PICTURE READY TO PA9TE AROUND BOX . 










making it a lovely green, pink, or purple. 

The little boxes that you get at the drug¬ 
gists for a few cents, that slip into their covers 
like a drawer, make charming little gift boxes. 

Take four, put two side by side, and two on 
top of them, and bind them together with a 
picture that will go around all four. After 
you have found eight little pictures for the 
ends of the boxes, put on a pretty button or 
a little twist of ribbon for a handle. 

You might put a different thing in each box. An inch wide ribbon 
around your four boxes is attractive. You might make this gift for Mother’s 
desk to hold four kinds of stamps. 

Long ice-cream-soda boxes make pretty vases for Christmas flowers, 
and can be depended upon to hold water long enough to present the gift. 
But they will contain a milk or an olive bottle and be considered as a regu¬ 
lar vase. These, too, may be covered with a picture or painted with water- 
color. 

Perhaps you will know how to make some designs for your box cov¬ 
ers yourself. They may be original, or you may copy simple pictures 
from books or magazines. Pictures of flowers or birds will be lovely. 
When you have your design, trace it on a box, repeating it if necessary, 
and then paint it. You may leave the box tan or white and color the 
background, or you may paint the silhouette one color and the background 
another. The little Japanese stencils that you can get at the ten cent store 
make very pretty designs on box sides and covers. 

Grown up people cover their boxes with wall-paper, and there is no 
reason why you should not do the same thing. 

The colored pictures in the magazines that have pretty colors but are 
not suitable for using as box covering may be made into cornucopias and 
Christmas tree boxes. Take two pictures with contrasting colors, cut them 
as the mats you weave in kindergarten are cut, and weave them the same 
way. They will paste into a cornucopia that is prettier than anything 
you can buy. These mats, carefully woven, will make variegated patterns 
for your boxes, too. 









A CRECHE (or cradle) in Italy or France takes the place of our < 
Christmas tree, but it may be built by any American child in the 
playroom or in a corner of the living-room. It will make very 
real and vivid the tender beauty of Christmas. 

On a small, low table, puff and crinkle stiff brown paper into a rocky 
hillside about Bethlehem. Fill the hollows with bits of rock and moss. Daub 
mucilage on the high, round surfaces, and dust with flour or silver snow. 
Plant a quantity of little trees—firs and evergreens. Scatter a few toy 
sheep wherever there is a bit of pasturage. (Fifteen cent celluloid sheep 
were all I found in the shops, but they do very well with scraps of cotton 
or wool glued to their backs. Bits of sponge, colored green, make good 
shrubs and trees.) 

At the foot of this hill, make out of a cardboard box, a shelter with 
straw roof, or a stable. Use a pasteboard box for a manger. Be sure that 
its back legs are longer than those 
in front, so that it tips forward. 

Plant around with holly and mistle¬ 
toe. Fill the manger with hay, and 
lay in it a tiny Christ-child—the 
smallest baby doll you can find. 

Behind Him place the ox and the 
ass “to warm Him with their breath 
through the cold night.” (Twenty- 
five cent celluloid animals are well 
colored and lifelike.) 

Next, dress small ten or fifteen 
cent china dolls; the Virgin 












Mary, in white dress, blue mantle and white veil over her dark hair; Joseph 
in dark striped coat or mantle; the three Wise Men with bits of rich tapes¬ 
try or brocade or satin for their trains and mantles, and gold crowns; 
shepherds in brown smocks and hoods, with staves. 

Then group these personages about the manger. First, “Mary Mother 
Milde” on the right, Joseph on the left, the wondering shepherds at right 
foreground, a sheep following down the path close on their heels, and in 
the left foreground, the three Kings. For the arrangement of the groups 
any great painting of the nativity may be followed. Perry picture prints 
of Corregio, Raphael and Memling are easily obtainable, or mounted prints 
can be studied in the Public Library. 

The sheep will stand in the crevices, or with forelegs stuck through the 
paper hill, heads bent forward for grazing. All the other figures and the 
ox and the ass will stand in any pose desired, if their feet are firmly planted 
in small 3x3 squares of corrugated cardboard, hidden by moss or hay. 

Hang a tiny star to the top of the stable, and if there is room, a shin¬ 
ing angel in white. Small tin boxes, hidden by greens and holly, and stood 
up on end, may conceal small electric Christmas-tree lights. These may 
be lighted for the first time on Christmas eve with a carol, “Holy Night, 
Silent Night,” sung by the entire family. Thus the creche will be enjoyed 
by young and old alike, and on Twelfth night or Epiphany, may be care¬ 
fully folded away for another year. 







THINGS YOU CAN MAKE 
,/- * CHRISTMAS TREE 


I F YOU want to make pretty ornaments to hang on the Christmas 
tree, save up all the silver paper, colored tissue, and crepe paper 
that you can. 

Every Christmas tree should have a star fastened at the top to repre¬ 
sent the Star of Bethlehem that guided the Three Wise Men to the 
Bethlehem manger. To make a five-pointed star, follow Betsy Ross’s 
plan: Fold a square of paper once (Fig. 1). Make another fold at 
the dotted line shown in Fig. 2, being sure that it begins exactly in the 
center of the fold (Fig. 3). Fold 
over corner (Fig. 4). One more 
fold makes it look like Fig. 5. With 
one diagonal snip of your scissors 
(Fig. 6) you will make a five-pointed 
star (Fig. 7). Experiment until your 
pattern is symmetrical and of the right 
size, then make your star from stiff 
cardboard. Paste a piece of silver 
paper or gold, if you have it, on both 
sides of the cardboard star. Be care¬ 
ful to make it smooth and neat. When 
the silver paper has dried, you can 


run a fine wire or thread 
through one of the star points 
about one-half inch from the 
point. This will serve to fasten 
it to the top of the Christmas 
tree. 

Another pretty star is made 
by the same pattern and also cut 
out of stiff cardboard. Brush 




Stars 
covered with 
silver paper 
and rice. 



















one side lightly with glue and 
then sprinkle it thickly with rice 
that has not been cooked. Let 
this dry carefully for half a 
day, and then treat the other 
side in the same way. This 
looks well tied on the Christ¬ 
mas tree with a piece of red 
baby ribbon. 

A cross, too, can be made 
from cardboard cut like Fig. 8. Cover it either with rice or with silver 
paper. 

Nearly all Christmas trees are trimmed with chains. If you do not 
use lighted candles, you can trim yours with pretty paper chains. Any 
kind of colored paper makes a simple loop chain like Fig. 9. Cut each 
loop out of paper in a size that measures four inches long and one-half 
inch wide. Paste the ends together neatly and join the loops as in the 
picture. Two colors like pink and green, or red and green, are very 

pretty to use in these chains. How long is yours going to he? If it 

is a very long chain, you can fasten it at the top of the tree and wind 

it around and around the tree until you reach the floor! 

Another way to make a chain is to fold colored paper or wall pa¬ 
per like Fig. 10, and cut where the dotted lines indicate. Fig. 11 is 
the loop opened. Slip one loop into the other like Fig. 12 and make 
more loops for a chain as long 
as you choose. 

A Hawaiian leis, made of 
red crepe paper, is a very pretty 
chain to make with needle and 
thread. When it is done, it 
looks like a solid rope of ro¬ 
settes! Take a fine needle with 
an eye big enough to hold No. 

36 spool cotton and gather 
right through the middle of the 

strip of crepe paper an inch 1A 

















and a half wide just as shown in Fig. 
13. After you have finished one strip 
and pulled up the gathers loosely, 
cut another strip and join it right on 
the same thread which should be at 
least a yard long. Keep on doing this 
until you have a long thread covered 
with gathered crepe paper. Then 
fasten your thread by winding it over 
a little wad of paper. Turn the 
gathers around the thread exactly as 
if you were turning a screw, and it 
will look like a rosette as shown at the 
end of Fig. 14. When the leis is made 
into a thick rope, draw the thread tightly and fasten it again. The leis, 
which the Hawaiians pronounce like “lay-ee,” can then be hung on the 
tree. 

Every Christmas tree should have some candy hung upon it and 
some little baskets will be convenient to put the candy in. Save all the 
little boxes you can, for these make a good foundation for baskets. A 
round box should have a handle made of braided red and green crepe 
paper. Sew this tightly to each side of the box (Fig. 15). Then paste 
on a strip of crepe paper as in Fig. 16. Frill the edges of the crepe 
by pulling it gently between the thumb and forefinger. If you have 
some Christmas seals or tiny gold stars, paste these on top of the crepe 
paper for extra pretty trimming. Your tree will be quite as pretty as 
though it were trimmed with store ornaments, and it will be much more 
original. 


















Mr. Alfie Elf, as you know, was a very 
great traveler. He went all over the world, 
North, South, East and West, and when 
there was no more world to see, he decided 
to settle down and build himself a home. 

So he got some peas and soaked them in 
water until they were quite soft. Then he 
gathered reeds by the brook; and with the 
reeds and the peas, he built himself a lovely 
house and a well with a fence around it 
and a little bridge in front. Here on this 
page are his building plans which tell you 
just how he did it. 

Now, Children, since you know how Mr. 
Elf built his house, you, too, can get some 
peas and soak them in water until they are 
quite soft. Instead of Mr. Elf’s reeds you 
can use toothpicks. Then you can cut 
some bright paper for the roof and the 
walks. If you follow the plans carefully, 
your finished model of Mr. Elf’s house will 
look like the one on the following page. 
But remember to let it dry so that it will 
become very hard and firm. Some day, 
perhaps, a little homeless Elf will see it and 
like it so well that he will come to live in it. 


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These pictures show just how the little men were made. 
Soak some peas until they are soft, just as you did for Alfie’s 
house, and with these and some tooth picks and corks you 
can make some little men (and little women, too). For the 
feet you may use peas which are split in two, so they will 
rest flat, and do the same with the hands. The pictures 
show just how. Each little man may have a cane to help 
him stand up. A round disk of cardboard glued to the small 
end of a cork will make as good a top hat as a cork man could 
ask for. As for Mrs. Cork, give her a skirt of colored paper, and 
put a fine paper feather on her hat. Paste a coat of colored 
paper on Mr. Cork, and with your paints draw buttons on 
the coats, and make a face for each of them. If you can’t 
draw a face, you may cut one from a paper, and paste it on 
the cork head. Of course your little men will not be able to 
move like Alfie Elf’s, because you don’t know the charm, 
but you can make believe that they do and have fine times, 
1 am sure. 

G. BRADLEIGH WRIGHT 


MR.6T0PPLE MEETS 

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MR am* MRS. CORK. 









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There is an infinite variety of things to do suitable 
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paint—to cut. Things to draw — 
to make—to color—to guess. 


Each portfolio book has sixty-four pages, with 
many in two colors. They are really complete 
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all ready to start the fun of working. Price post¬ 
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